Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 272 Ex.] YEAS--74 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--17 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Cornyn Cruz Enzi Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Boxer Coburn Crapo Graham Hatch Inhofe Kirk Schatz The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”