Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 260 Ex.] YEAS--70 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coats Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The nomination is confirmed. ____________________”