Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Ex.] YEAS--86 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--2 DeMint Lee NOT VOTING--12 Coburn Harkin Inhofe Inouye Kirk Landrieu Lautenberg McCain McCaskill Portman Stabenow Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Under the previous order, a motion to reconsider is considered made and laid on the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…”