Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Leg.] YEAS--58 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kohl Kyl Leahy Lee Levin Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Webb Wicker NAYS--41 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected.”