Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 19 Leg.] YEAS -- 86 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Baucus Begich Brown (OH) Harkin Lautenberg Lee Merkley Murray Paul Sanders Tester Udall (NM) NOT VOTING--2 Kerry Pryor The bill (H.R. 514), as amended, was passed. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I am necessarily absent for the vote today on legislation to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, H.R. 514.…”