Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 40, nays 59, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lieberman Manchin McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Pryor Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Toomey Vitter Webb NAYS--59 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Carper Coats Cochran Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Casey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40, the nays are 59. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Senator from Florida. ____________________”