Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 57 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--31 Baucus Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Cowan Durbin Feinstein Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Landrieu Leahy Levin Menendez Mikulski Murphy Murray Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 409) was agreed to.”