Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 284 Ex.] YEAS--92 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Johanns Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Bunning DeMint Isakson Kirk Shaheen Specter Voinovich Wyden The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”