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), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 190 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--24 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Heller Hoeven Inhofe Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Scott Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Burr Chambliss Cochran McCaskill Merkley Moran Rockefeller Toomey The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System?”