Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 150 Leg.] YEAS--70 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--27 Alexander Ayotte Burr Chambliss Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Corker Enzi The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 70, the nays are 27. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for passage of the bill, the bill, as amended, is passed. The bill (H.R. 2832), as amended, was passed, as follows: H.R.…”