Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2174) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington. Amendment No. 2370”