Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 20 Ex.] YEAS--96 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Inhofe Inouye Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu 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--4 Bennett Coburn Hutchison Isakson The nomination was confirmed. Change of Vote”