Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 267 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Stabenow Tester Toomey Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--23 Barrasso Braun Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Romney Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville NOT VOTING--11 Blunt Cramer Kennedy Lankford Leahy Sanders Scott (SC) Smith Tillis Warner Warnock The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). 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. ____________________”