Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 186 Ex.] YEAS--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 Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill 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 NAYS--34 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lugar McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--3 Coburn Hatch Inhofe NOT VOTING--7 Ayotte DeMint Graham Kirk Lee McCain Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”