Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. the following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee). The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Leg.] YEAS--83 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--8 Barrasso Coburn Cornyn Enzi Graham Inhofe McConnell Vitter NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Burr DeMint Heller Kyl Lee Lieberman Murkowski Murray The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The Senator from Pennsylvania. ____________________”