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 62, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Leg.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake 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 Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--37 Baldwin Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Landrieu Leahy Levin Menendez Mikulski Murphy Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 709) was agreed to. Amendment No. 154 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 154, offered by Mr. Portman.”