Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 59, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--59 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont. Amendment No. 2254”