Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted: nay. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Ex.] YEAS--49 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NAYS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Coats Cochran Corker Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--14 Baucus Blunt Burr Coburn Cornyn Graham Heller Kirk Lee Merkley Mikulski Mo…”