Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 26, nays 73, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Leg.] YEAS--26 Akaka Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Cantwell Cardin Feinstein Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Lautenberg Leahy Lieberman Manchin Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Reed Rockefeller Sanders Tester Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--73 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lee Levin Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Oklahoma. Amendment No. 2214”