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 result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 78 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 152) was rejected.”