Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 266 Ex.] YEAS--75 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Alexander Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Hoeven Isakson Johanns McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--5 Blunt Graham Inhofe Kirk McCain The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”