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 75, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 62 Leg.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--24 Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Coats Cornyn Cruz Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Lee McConnell Merkley Murkowski Paul Roberts Rubio Scott Shaheen Tester Toomey Vitter Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 656) was agreed to.”