Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 166 Ex.] YEAS--82 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Whitehouse NAYS--3 Blunt Inhofe Paul NOT VOTING--15 Burr Cantwell DeMint Graham Hatch Heller Isakson Klobuchar…”