Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 119 Ex.] YEAS--78 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Crapo Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Barrasso Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Cornyn DeMint Ensign Enzi Grassley Hutchison Kyl McCain McConnell Roberts Snowe Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Bennett Byrd Inhofe The nomination was confirmed.”