Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. Under the previous order, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 280 Leg.] YEAS--59 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Walsh Warner Wicker NAYS--41 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 41. The threshold has not been achieved, and the bill is not passed. ____________________”