Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Leg.] YEAS--51 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--46 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Burr Cardin Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Hatch Kirk Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader is recognized.”