Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 26, nays 72, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Leg.] YEAS--26 Barrasso Coats Coburn Cochran Crapo Cruz Enzi Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--72 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kaine Lautenberg The amendment (No. 382) was rejected.”