Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 13, nays 85, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Leg.] YEAS--13 Boxer Cantwell Coburn DeMint Hatch Johnson (WI) Lee McCaskill Murray Pryor Sessions Udall (CO) Vitter NAYS--85 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Paul NOT VOTING--1 Rockefeller The amendment was rejected. Amendment No. 599, as Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 4 minutes equally divided prior to the vote in relation to the Coburn amendment. The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.”