Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 308 Ex.] YEAS--89 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--3 Barrasso Enzi Heller NOT VOTING--8 Coburn Cochran Cruz Landrieu Leahy Levin Rockefeller Udall (CO) The nomination was confirmed. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________”