Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 140 Leg.] YEAS--63 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2382) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina. Amendment No. 2273 Mr. DeMINT. Mr. President, I wish to bring up amendment No. 2273. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. DeMint] proposes an amendment numbered 2273.…”