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 80, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 66 Leg.] YEAS--80 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Schatz Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Warren Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Baldwin Brown Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harkin Johnson (SD) King Levin Menendez Merkley Murphy Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Udall (NM) Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 693) was agreed to.”