Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.] YEAS--64 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Kerry Murray The bill (H.R. 325) was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________”