Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 151 Leg.] YEAS--46 Alexander Ayotte Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Carper Casey Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn DeMint Durbin Feinstein Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Paul Portman Reed Sessions Shaheen Snowe Toomey Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--53 Akaka Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Burr Cantwell Cardin Chambliss Cochran Conrad Crapo Enzi Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2433) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). The Senator from Minnesota. Amendment No. 2299”