Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 297 Ex.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--28 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Coburn Cochran Landrieu McCaskill The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”