Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 36 Ex.] YEAS--55 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Hatch NOT VOTING--7 Graham Isakson Landrieu Murkowski Nelson Risch Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 55, the nays are 37, and 1 Senator voting ``present.'' The motion is agreed to. Pursuant to the provisions of S. Res.…”