Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 95 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--31 Barrasso Begich Blunt Boozman Coats Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 31. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader.”