Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and 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 46, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 245 Leg.] YEAS--46 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--49 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Cochran Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Boxer DeMint Kirk Lautenberg Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3367, as Further Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 3367, as further modified, offered by the Senator from Oregon, Mr.…”