Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 121 Ex.] YEAS--72 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Gregg Hutchison Inhofe Isakson McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Alexander Bennett Byrd Johanns The nomination was confirmed. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, a motion to consider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…”