Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Ex.] YEAS--81 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Blumenthal Gillibrand Hirono Markey Merkley Sanders Schatz Warren NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Durbin Flake Inhofe Lee McCain Moran Murray Rubio Tillis Toomey The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that with respect to the Quattlebaum and Richardson nominations, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________”