Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 216 Leg.] YEAS--58 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--34 Ayotte Barrasso Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Hatch Heller Hutchison Kirk Murray Rockefeller Wyden The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 58, the nays are 34.…”