Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Leg.] YEAS--79 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Ayotte Blunt Crapo Hatch Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Rubio Toomey NOT VOTING--9 Burr Chambliss Coburn Cornyn DeMint Hutchison Kirk Moran Murko…”