Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 33 Exe.] YEAS--89 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harkin Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--11 Conrad Ensign Hagan Hatch Hoeven Isakson Leahy Murkowski Paul Sanders Webb The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”