Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Leg.] YEAS--67 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--32 Ayotte Barrasso Burr Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Portman Risch Rubio Sanders Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Paul The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 32. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2055, the conference report is agreed to. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today I cast my vote against H.R. 2055, the nine-bill appropriations measure.…”