Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted: ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 63 Leg.] YEAS--51 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Hatch Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 47. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The senior Senator from Missouri. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business.…”