Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 41, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--58 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 41, the nays are 88. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 791 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The next amendment is the Coburn amendment No. 791.”