Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 250 Ex.] YEAS--69 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Boozman Cochran Cornyn Crapo Enzi Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Johanns Kyl Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Chambliss DeMint Kerry Kirk Lautenberg Portman The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…”