Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.] YEAS--97 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk 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 Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Bond Roberts Udall (CO) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________”