Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``no''. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 366 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Blunt Boxer Chambliss Cochran Hatch Johanns Kirk Leahy Sanders Sessions The nomination was confirmed.…”