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 result was announced--yeas 69, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 149 Leg.] YEAS--69 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 Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--28 Alexander Ayotte Burr Chambliss Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Corker Enzi The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). On this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 28. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Under the previous order, the clerk will read the bill for a third time.…”