Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Leg.] YEAS--52 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Begich Heller Kirk Leahy The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.”