Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted: nay. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 70, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.] YEAS--70 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NAYS--16 Barrasso Boozman Cochran Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Johanns Johnson (WI) McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--14 Baucus Blunt Burr Coburn Cornyn Graham Heller Kirk Lee Merkl…”