Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Menendez). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 221 Ex.] YEAS--89 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--11 DeMint Enzi Harkin Hutchison Landrieu Lugar Merkley Rockefeller Rubio Vitter Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Andrew L.…”