Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was anounced--yeas 86, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 47 Ex.] YEAS--86 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 Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kohl Kyl Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--14 Conrad DeMint Graham Hutchison Kirk Klobuchar Lautenberg Merkley Reed Risch Stabenow Toomey Vitter Wicker The nomination was confirmed. <bullet> Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr.…”