Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 35 Leg.] YEAS--66 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--31 Ayotte Barrasso Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Toomey Warner NOT VOTING--3 Kirk Paul Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 31. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order fails. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.”