Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 144 Leg.] YEAS--48 Baldwin Baucus Bennet Boxer Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCaskill McConnell Moran Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--14 Begich Blumenthal Brown Chambliss Graham Manchin McCain Murkowski Paul Sanders Scott Udall (CO) Vitter Warner The amendment (No. 998) was agreed to.”