Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 67, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 36 Leg.] YEAS--30 Ayotte Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Graham Grassley Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--67 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Hatch Kirk Lautenberg The amendment (No. 1756) was rejected. Amendment No. 1759 The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 1759 offered by the Senator from New Mexico, Mr. Bingaman.…”