Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Leg.] YEAS--76 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Ayotte Barrasso Coburn Corker Crapo DeMint Graham Hatch Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--4 Chambliss Inouye Kirk Lautenberg The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 20. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion to proceed is agreed to. ____________________”