Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Ex.] YEAS--61 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Coats Coburn Cornyn Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Boxer Burr Chambliss Cochran McCaskill Merkley Moran Rockefeller The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System?”