Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 74 Ex.] YEAS--52 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Hatch NOT VOTING--4 Baucus Hutchison Moran Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 43, and 1 Senator responded ``Present.'' Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. <bullet> Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, today, I was unavoidably absent for vote No.…”