Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 47 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Baucus Boxer Brown Carper Coons Feinstein Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Landrieu Leahy Levin McCaskill Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Tester Udall (NM) NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment No. 297 was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.”