Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.] YEAS--71 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Rockefeller Schatz Vitter The nomination was confirmed.”