Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Leg.] YEAS--61 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--30 Alexander Barrasso Boozman Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Blunt Burr Chambliss Coburn McCain McCaskill Moran Murkowski Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. (Disturbance in the visitors gallery.) The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”