Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 24 Ex.] YEAS--89 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Sanders NOT VOTING--10 Blumenthal Burr Casey Corker Durbin McCain McCaskill Moran Risch 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 Alaska. ____________________”