Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Ex.] YEA--73 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Kennedy Lee Marshall Paul Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--14 Coons Fetterman Hoeven Markey Menendez Padilla Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Scott (SC) Vance Warner Warnock The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper).…”