Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 7 Leg.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--46 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Kerry Murray The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.”