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 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 44 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Ayotte Burr Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Tester Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The bill (H.R. 933), as amended, was passed. (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record).”