Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 41 Leg.] YEAS--98 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--1 Sessions NOT VOTING--1 Rockefeller The amendment (No. 182) was agreed to. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion to reconsider is considered made and laid on the table. Amendment No. 193 Under the previous order, there is now 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 193 offered by the Senator from Maine, Ms. Snowe. The Senator from Maine is recognized.”