Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: 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 52, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Leg.] YEAS--52 Bennet Bingaman Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Tester Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Blumenthal Blunt Cantwell Coats Coburn Cochran Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Gillibrand Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Stabenow Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2438) was agreed to. Amendment No. 2437 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Dakota.”