Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 262 Ex.] YEAS--79 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Coats Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Hoeven Inhofe Johanns McConnell Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Cochran Kirk The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”