Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 209 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Cochran Cortez Masto Heller McCain Menendez Sanders Toomey 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. The Senator from Arizona. ____________________”