Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 119 Leg.] YEAS--76 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--23 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Sessions Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Wicker The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The majority leader is recognized.”