Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hutchison Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Boxer Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Kirk Lautenberg Leahy McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The point of order is sustained. Under the previous order, the motion to invoke cloture on S.…”