Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 145 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lieberman McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2354) was rejected.”