Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Ex.] YEAS--53 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 Lummis Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Rounds Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination. The bill clerk read the nomination of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 5, 2021. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire. ____________________”