Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 280 Ex.] YEAS--95 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln 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) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Bunning Gregg Hatch Landrieu Manchin The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table.…”