Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 33, nays 66, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Leg.] YEAS--33 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Cantwell Cardin Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Hirono Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Tester Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--66 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 622) was rejected.”