Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 203 Leg.] YEAS--84 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Boxer Coburn Cornyn DeMint Kyl Lautenberg Lee Menendez Paul Reed Sessions Toomey NOT VOTING--4 Inouye Kerry Kirk Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to commit falls. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the cloture vote on the Sportsmen's Act (S. 3525). If I were able to attend today's session, I would have supported cloture on this legislation.<bullet>”