Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) would have voted ``nay.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 356 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Boxer Brown Chambliss Cochran Johanns Rubio The nomination was confirmed. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore.…”