Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--20 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Durbin Gillibrand Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Sanders Schatz Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Flake Leahy Murkowski 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. ____________________”