Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 121 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) King Kirk Klobuchar Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Whitehouse NAYS--53 Baldwin Baucus Begich Blumenthal Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Lautenberg Murkowski Murray Nelson The amendment (No. 815) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 816 offered by the Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Coburn.”