Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 15 Leg.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Akaka Blumenthal Brown (OH) Cardin Casey Crapo DeMint Franken Gillibrand Harkin Klobuchar Leahy Lee McCaskill Merkley Mikulski Paul Risch Sanders Stabenow NOT VOTING--5 Barrasso Conrad Hatch Kirk Vitter The conference report was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized. ____________________”