Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) would vote ``nay.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Leg.] YEAS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Udall (NM) The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 55. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 509, As Modified There is now 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the next vote on the Portman amendment.…”