Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 33, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 71 Leg.] YEAS--33 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--65 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 DeMint Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Connecticut. Amendment No. 2031, as Modified”