Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 122 Ex.] YEAS--77 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--20 Barrasso Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Grassley Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Risch Roberts Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bennett Byrd Johanns The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”