Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 187 Leg.] YEAS--52 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NAYS--46 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 52, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader is recognized. The Senate will be in order.”