Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 207 Leg.] YEAS--85 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--11 Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn DeMint Graham Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain NOT VOTING--4 Bingaman Kirk Paul Wyden The amendment (No. 2955) was agreed to.”