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 88, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Leg.] YEAS--88 Akaka Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--11 Alexander Bingaman Burr Coburn DeMint Graham Inhofe Lee Paul Rubio Sessions NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, as modified, the amendment is agreed to. The Senator from Georgia. Amendment No. 2438”