Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 299 Ex.] YEAS--89 Akaka Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Bond Brownback Bunning Feingold Harkin McCaskill Roberts Stabenow Vitter Wyden The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”