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 36, nays 63, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 150 Leg.] YEAS--36 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Toomey Vitter NAYS--63 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2226) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Klobuchar). The Senator from Nebraska. Amendment No. 2242”