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 35, nays 64, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 76 Leg.] YEAS--35 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--64 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Connecticut.”