Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 209 Leg.] YEAS--54 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse NAYS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--5 DeMint Heller Kirk McCaskill Wyden The amendment (No. 3095) was agreed to.”