Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Ex.] YEAS--88 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Ayotte Blunt Burr Coats DeMint Hutchison McCain McCaskill Risch Roberts Rubio Warner The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”