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 ``yea'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Ex.] YEAS--90 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--7 Cardin Gillibrand Mikulski Moran Roberts Schumer Walsh NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Corker Schatz The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”