Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Florida (Mr. LeMieux), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 201 Ex.] YEAS--80 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Bunning Burris Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shaheen Snowe Specter Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--19 Bennett Bond Brownback Burr Cantwell Gillibrand Gregg Johnson LeMieux Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Sanders Shelby Stabenow Vitter Voinovich Wyden The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”