Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 335 Ex.] YEAS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse NAYS--34 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Lankford Lee McConnell Murkowski Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Sasse Sessions Shelby Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--21 Boxer Coats Cruz Flake Graham Heller Johnson Kirk McCain Merkley Moran Paul Peters Risch Rubio Sanders Scott Stabenow Sullivan Vitter Wyden The nomination was confirmed. Vote Explanation <bullet> Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, unfortunately, due to inclement weather that delayed my flight to Washington, DC, I was unable to attend today's rollcall vote on the nomination of Alissa M.…”