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 41, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Leg.] YEAS--41 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Hirono King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--58 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 646) was rejected.”