Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 152 Leg.] YEAS--54 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman 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 Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Coats Cochran Corker Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cornyn DeMint Hutchison Kirk Moran Murkowski Webb The PRESI…”