Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: 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 36, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Leg.] YEAS--36 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--62 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 2103 Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 2103, offered by the Senator from Louisiana, Mr. Vitter. The Senator from Louisiana.”