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Flashback: Confirmation Vote of John Forbes Kerry
United States Senate ^ | January 29, 2013 | Our Senators

Posted on 04/29/2014 8:19:17 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation John Forbes Kerry, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of State )
Vote Number: 5
Vote Date: January 29, 2013, 04:05 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN42
Nomination Description: John Forbes Kerry, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of State
Vote Counts: YEAs 94
NAYs 3
Present 1
Not Voting 2
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

Alphabetical by Senator Name
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Baldwin (D-WI), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Cruz (R-TX), Nay
Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Flake (R-AZ), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Yea
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Not Voting
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Present
King (I-ME), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Not Voting
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Yea
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Scott (R-SC), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: commies; johnkerry; jonyassarkerry; kerry; secstate; traitor
This is where the ignorant SOBs in the Senate stood on the confirmation of John F. Kerry (did you know he was in Viet Nam?) I have to say this is an acid test. Votes have meaning and the confirmation of Secretary of State has great meaning. It is inexcusable for any Republican to cast a vote for Kerry. Here are the results.

Note: My asswipe Senator from PA, Arlen Toomey (that was intentional), sponsored gun control legislation with Manchin and Schumer. He lost my vote then. A vote for JF Kerry is reason to be hung.

I suggest that everyone that voted for Kerry's confirmation is declared brain dead and should never hold office again. Yes, that casts a wide net than includes Mike Lee, Marco Rubio and others. Perhaps they were so F'n stupid or lazy that they were not paying attention when John F'n Kerry was being Swift boated. That in itself is reason to never vote for them ever again.

1 posted on 04/29/2014 8:19:17 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA
The question is will JFK be held to the same standards as
Sterling over his comments about Israel and Apartheid?
2 posted on 04/29/2014 8:22:55 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

No he won’t.


3 posted on 04/29/2014 8:24:28 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Another demerit for Marco Rubio.

Mike Lee is a surprise, though.

4 posted on 04/29/2014 8:30:25 PM PDT by Baynative (Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Trying to be positive now. The nays came from Cornyn, Cruz and Inhofe. Now we can play the game: which one of these is not like the other. (BTW, subscribe that most legislators are not competent to be President. ) Cruz may be an exception.


5 posted on 04/29/2014 8:30:48 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

6 posted on 04/29/2014 8:30:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Baynative

I was surprised by Lee as well. It is telling. That is why i put this up as an acid test. The history is known with Kerry. I cannot imagine voting for him. It violates all of my principles. My principles do not match those of Lee or most other Republicans in the Senate, including two that voted against Kerry.


7 posted on 04/29/2014 8:36:10 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Both of my TX Senators voted NAY!


8 posted on 04/29/2014 8:54:51 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: ConservativeInPA

Year in and Year out republicans keep voting for these asshats.


9 posted on 04/29/2014 8:56:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Both of my TX Senators voted NAY!


10 posted on 04/29/2014 8:57:44 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: Antoninus II

Sorry for the double post! Messing with 2 laptops and trying to watch a documentary at the same time!


11 posted on 04/29/2014 9:00:26 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: Antoninus II

Both of my Georgia RINO scumbags voted YEA.


12 posted on 04/29/2014 9:00:40 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Here we see cronyism spun as collegiality.

These Republican senators who voted in favor of John Kerry were fully aware of his philosophy and his propensities as well as his history but they voted for him nevertheless so that they in their turn would be supported by Democrats. They then turned to the electorate say, "the president is entitled to his team on foreign affairs, politics stop at the water's edge" etc.

The truth is that these politicians were once again favoring their own interest at the cost of to our interest and the national interest.


13 posted on 04/29/2014 9:01:49 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: ConservativeInPA

What kind of nation puts an admitted war criminal like Genghis Kerry into a job like Secretary of State?


14 posted on 04/29/2014 9:02:05 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Cheerio

Why oh why do freepers see stuff coming a mile away that others ignore? I mean, how could you NOT know that JFK was a freakin’ mega-moron when it came to foreign policy. It was as obvious as a baseball bat smacking your cranium.


15 posted on 04/29/2014 9:31:26 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: ConservativeInPA

A lot of Republicans willing to make a traitor the Sec State.


16 posted on 04/29/2014 9:58:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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