Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 104 Ex.] YEAS--94 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Boxer Burr Inhofe Leahy Moran Udall (NM) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sanders). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. (At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) <bullet> Mrs. BOXER. Mr.…”