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 48, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Leg.] YEAS--48 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kyl Lee Levin Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--51 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cardin Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lieberman Manchin Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected.”