Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina ( Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 177 Ex.] YEAS--90 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Dodd Dorgan Durbin Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Bayh Byrd Crapo DeMint Ensign Gregg Hutchison Inouye Lincoln Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont is recognized.”