Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 134 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Carper Casey Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Cruz Durbin Feinstein Flake Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murphy Paul Portman Reed Roberts Rockefeller Scott Sessions Shaheen Toomey Warner Warren Whitehouse NAYS--54 Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Boxer Burr Cantwell Cardin Chambliss Cochran Crapo Donnelly Enzi Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Pryor Reid Risch Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 925) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.”