Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Leg.] YEAS--53 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Coats Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Schumer Shaheen Snowe Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NAYS--33 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--14 Casey DeMint Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Kirk Landrieu Murkowski Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Stabenow Vitter Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”