Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 37, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 4 Leg.] YEAS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Hoeven Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kyl Leahy Lee Lugar McConnell Moran Nelson (NE) Paul Risch Roberts Shelby Thune Toomey Warner Webb Wicker NAYS--61 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Levin Lieberman Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Sessions The amendment (No. 1484) was rejected.”