Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Leg.] YEAS--61 Akaka Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Alexander Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Blumenthal Kirk Roberts The motion was agreed to. ____________________”