Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 108 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Begich Boozman Coons Harkin Inhofe Landrieu Moran Pryor Rubio The nomination was confirmed.”