Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Ex.] YEAS--71 Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--21 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Coons Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Burr Leahy Markey Murkowski Rounds Sanders Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). 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 Texas.”