Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 38, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 232 Leg.] YEAS--38 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Franken Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Kohl Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Paul Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Kyl Landrieu Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--10 Boxer Brown (OH) DeMint Gillibrand Harkin Inhofe Kirk Lautenberg Murkowski Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3435 Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote in relation to amendment No.…”