Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.] YEAS--74 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Harkin Heller Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed (RI) Reid (NV) Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--16 Boozman Coburn Cornyn DeMint Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--10 Chambliss Graham Hagan Hatch Hoeven Kirk Lautenberg Lieberman Mikulski Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”