Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Ex.] YEAS--78 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--16 Boozman Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Lee McConnell Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby NOT VOTING--6 Blunt Graham Kirk McCain Paul Vitter The nomination was confirmed.”