Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Ex.] YEAS--80 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--13 Blunt Boozman Cochran Crapo DeMint Hatch Hutchison Lee McConnell Moran Risch Roberts Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Hagan Inhofe Murkowski Paul Rubio Toomey Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider shall be considered made and laid upon the table, and the President shall be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…”