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 80, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Kyl Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--19 Blumenthal Booker Brown Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Flake The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”