Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Leg.] YEAS--79 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Blunt Cantwell Coats Coburn Corker DeMint Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCaskill Murkowski Murray Paul Rubio Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Inouye Lieberman The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.”