Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 172 Leg.] YEAS--74 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Ayotte Barrasso Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Toomey ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Snowe NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Bennet Coburn Inouye Kirk Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this conference report, the conference report is agreed to. The title was amended so as to read: ``An Act to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.''. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.”