Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Ex.] YEAS--72 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Hatch Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kirk Klobuchar Kyl Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--16 Burr Chambliss Crapo DeMint Heller Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--12 Boxer Coburn Graham Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Kerry Kohl Landrieu Nelson (NE) Tester Wicker The nomination was confirmed. <bullet> Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. to be Solicitor General of the United States.…”