Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Florida (Mr. LeMieux), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Ex.] YEAS--86 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Gregg Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kyl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--13 Begich Brownback Gillibrand Hagan Kohl Landrieu LeMieux Mikulski Murkowski Roberts Sessions Shaheen Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…”