Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Pryor). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.] YEAS--67 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Paul Reed Reid Risch Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NAYS--29 Ayotte Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Cornyn Grassley Hatch Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lieberman Lugar Manchin McConnell Nelson (NE) Portman Pryor Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Heller Kirk Rockefeller Wyden The amendment (No. 3018) was agreed to.”