Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Leg.] YEAS--46 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Cantwell Cardin Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Johnson (SD) Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Portman Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coons Corker Cornyn DeMint Enzi Franken Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Nelson (NE) Paul Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Webb NOT VOTING--4 Blumenthal Crapo Hutchison Kirk The amendment (No. 2108) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of the amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Tennessee.”