Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 37, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Leg.] YEAS--37 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Carper Conrad Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heller Klobuchar Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Wyden NAYS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson (FL) Portman Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Brown (OH) DeMint Harkin Inhofe Kirk Lautenberg Murkowski Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3436 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote in relation to amendment No.…”