Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' 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. 46 Ex.] YEAS--88 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Blunt Cochran Hatch Hoeven Inouye Kirk Menendez Nelson (NE) Risch Rockefeller Vitter Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin).…”