Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 237 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Blunt Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 2175 Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes equally divided prior to a vote on the Levin-McCain amendment No. 2175. The Senator from Michigan.”