Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tester). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Leg.] YEAS--52 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Snowe NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Lugar The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 45. One Senator announcing present. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader.”