Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Cowan), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 104 Leg.] YEAS--67 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--30 Baldwin Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Hirono Johnson (SD) King Leahy Levin Menendez Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Whitehouse NOT VOTING--3 Cowan Lautenberg Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to.”