Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 287 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Chambliss Hagan Landrieu Sanders Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”