Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. McCaskill). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Akaka Baucus Begich Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Conrad Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Rockefeller Sanders Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The bill (H.R. 3606), as amended, was passed. ____________________”