Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Leg.] YEAS--34 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Risch Roberts Rubio Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--62 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Barrasso Corker Enzi Paul The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 34, the nays 62. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 650 The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”