Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) King Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Walsh Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Corker Schatz The nomination was confirmed. Vote on LaFleur Nomination The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate prior to a vote on the LaFleur nomination.”