Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 32 Ex.] YEAS--63 Alexander Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Chambliss Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Leahy Lee McConnell Merkley Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sanders Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Boxer Lautenberg Vitter 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. Vote Explanations <bullet> Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I was unavoidably absent from the votes related to the nomination of John Brennan to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.…”