Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tester). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Leg.] YEAS--57 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Coats Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Brown (MA) Burr Coburn DeMint Inhofe Kirk Lee Moran The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 34.…”