Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 158 Leg.] YEAS--47 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Johnson (SD) Kirk Menendez Shelby Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for passage of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. amendment no. 2456 to s. 3240 vote explanation <bullet> Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. President, I was unavoidably detained and unable to vote on the Boxer amendment No. 2456 this morning.…”