Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Leg.] YEAS--63 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Klobuchar Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Wicker NAYS--34 Akaka Baucus Bingaman Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Boxer Inhofe Udall (NM) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 34. Two-thirds of those voting not having voted in the affirmative, the amendment is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The clerk will report the managers' amendment. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from New York [Mr. Schumer], for himself, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Lieberman, Ms.…”