Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 165 Ex.] YEAS--56 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Cruz The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. As a reminder, expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted from the gallery. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.”