Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 122 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--22 Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Leahy Markey Merkley Murray Reed Schumer Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Isakson Sanders The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”