Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sanders). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 9, nays 88, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 109 Leg.] YEAS--9 Bennet Brown (OH) Durbin Franken Levin McCain Sanders Schumer Whitehouse NAYS--88 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bingaman Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Blumenthal Hutchison Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of the amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from North Carolina. Amendment No. 2130 Withdrawn”