Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.] YEAS--44 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo DeMint Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--52 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Barrasso Corker Enzi Paul The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 52. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No.…”