Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 15, nays 84, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Leg.] YEAS--15 Ayotte Burr DeMint Hatch Heller Johnson (WI) Kohl Kyl Lee McCain Murkowski Paul Portman Rubio Toomey NAYS--84 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2181) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware. Amendment No. 2426”