Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) would have voted: ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown of Ohio). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Leg.] YEAS--62 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--30 Ayotte Barrasso Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Manchin McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--8 Boozman Boxer Burr Heller Inhofe Kirk Murray Vitter The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 117) was passed. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mrs. BOXER. Mr.…”