Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 12, nays 79, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 234 Leg.] YEAS--12 Baucus Begich Cantwell Heller Lee Merkley Paul Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Webb Wyden NAYS--79 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Brown (OH) DeMint Harkin Inhofe Kirk Lautenberg Murkowski Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Maryland. ____________________”