Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Ex.] YEAS--73 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker NAYS--21 Baldwin Booker Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Kaine Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Cochran Donnelly Menendez Strange Van Hollen Young The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”