Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 169 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Blunt Cramer Paul Rounds Scott (FL) Shelby The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”