Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 222 Ex.] YEAS--72 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--23 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Enzi Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Lee McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Alexander DeMint Kirk Rockefeller Webb The nomination was confirmed.”