Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.] YEAS--71 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Alexander Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Begich Lautenberg Udall (CO) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”