Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 244 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy Kyl Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--34 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Paul Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Murphy Nelson The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada. ____________________”