Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 144 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--57 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Enzi Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40, the nays are 57. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 645 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question occurs on amendment No. 645, offered by the Senator from Arizona, Mr. Kyl, with 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote.…”