Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Ex.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Begich Flake Isakson Johnson (WI) Landrieu Schatz Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider will be considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…”