Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 175 Ex.] YEAS--78 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--17 Ayotte Blunt Cornyn Cruz Heller Inhofe Kirk McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--5 Boozman Cochran Lee McCaskill Scott The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”