Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was annuonced--yeas 95, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 209 Ex.] YEAS--95 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cochran Johanns King Pryor Schatz The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, with respect to the confirmed nominations, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”