Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 203 Ex.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Ricketts Rounds Schmitt Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--10 Cruz Fetterman Hoeven Menendez Mullin Paul Risch Romney Rubio Scott (FL) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich).…”