Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Boozman Coats McConnell The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 62, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. Pursuant to the provisions of S. Res. 15 of the 113th Congress, there will be up to 8 hours postcloture consideration of the nomination equally divided in the usual form. The Senator from Florida. D-day”