Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 7 Leg.] YEAS--58 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker Wyden NAYS--41 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 1491), as modified, was agreed to.”