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 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cardin Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Portman Reid Risch Roberts Schatz Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Warren Wyden NAYS--31 Baldwin Baucus Boxer Brown Cantwell Casey Cowan Durbin Feinstein Heller Hirono Kirk Landrieu Lee Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Stabenow Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 138) was agreed to.”