Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Leg.] YEAS--67 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--31 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Manchin McCain Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Inhofe Kirk The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). The majority leader.”