Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 207 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 Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--6 Crapo DeMint Inhofe Paul Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--5 Durbin Isakson Lee Risch Warner The nomination was confirmed. (At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, on vote Nos.…”