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 24, nays 75, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.] YEAS--24 Ayotte Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Coburn Corker DeMint Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hutchison Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Manchin Moran Paul Portman Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--75 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. amendment no. 1493 Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 1493 offered by the Senator from Iowa. This amendment is subject to a 60-vote threshold. The Senator from Iowa.”