Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 312 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Walsh Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--16 Begich Booker Boxer Cantwell Gillibrand Heinrich Johnson (SD) Menendez Mikulski Murray Sanders Schatz Stabenow Udall (NM) Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Coburn Cochran Cruz Landrieu Markey Moran Rockefeller Udall (CO) The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”