Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Leg.] YEAS--81 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Enzi Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--15 Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Hatch Inhofe Lee Paul Risch Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Feinstein Hutchison Inouye McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays are 15. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the resolution is agreed to. The resolution (S. Res. 29) was agreed to, as follows: S. Res. 29 Resolved, SECTION 1. READING OF AMENDMENTS. (a) Standing Order.--This section shall be a standing order of the Senate.…”