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 77, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Leg.] YEAS--77 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--22 Ayotte Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Corker Cornyn DeMint Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McCaskill Moran Paul Portman Rubio Toomey Vitter Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2295) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah. Amendment No. 2313”