Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) would have voted: ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 10, nays 81, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Leg.] YEAS--10 Crapo DeMint Grassley Lee Moran Paul Risch Roberts Shelby Toomey NAYS--81 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Boozman Boxer Burr Heller Inhofe Kirk Murray Rubio Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold not having been achieved, the bill is rejected.…”