Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 123 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--20 Barrasso Burr Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey NOT VOTING--5 Boozman Cochran Pryor Vitter Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 75, the nays are 20. The nomination is confirmed.”