Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (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 (Mr. Lujan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 167 Ex.] YEAS--81 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Blackburn Braun Cotton Crapo Cruz Hawley Inhofe Kennedy Lee Risch Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--6 Blunt Cramer Paul Rounds Scott (FL) Shelby The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”