Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.] YEAS--82 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--6 Blunt Inhofe Lee Risch Sessions Shelby NOT VOTING--12 Cassidy Coats Crapo Cruz Franken Graham Isakson Rubio Sanders Scott Stabenow Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”