Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rounds). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 30 Ex.] YEAS--88 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--11 Blumenthal Booker Cortez Masto Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Merkley Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Sessions The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. With respect to the Mattis and Kelly nominations, under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”