Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 46 Leg.] YEAS--76 Akaka Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--20 Alexander Blunt Burr Coats Corker Cornyn DeMint Grassley Johanns Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Crapo Hatch Kirk Lautenberg The amendment (No. 1816) was agreed to. Amendment No. 1556 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 1556, offered by the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Paul. The Senator from Kentucky.”