Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) would have voted: ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Whitehouse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Leg.] YEAS--84 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blunt Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--7 Blumenthal DeMint Kyl McCain Menendez Paul Reed NOT VOTING--9 Boozman Boxer Burr Coburn Heller Inhofe Kirk Murray Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Whitehouse).…”