Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Ex.] YEAS--87 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--11 Blumenthal Booker Gillibrand Harris Markey Menendez Reed Sanders Warren Whitehouse Wyden ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Perdue NOT VOTING--1 Flake The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.”