Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign). 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. 62 Ex.] 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 Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--11 Ensign Hatch Isakson Kirk Menendez Moran Nelson (FL) Rubio Sanders Udall (CO) Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”