Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 245 Leg.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--31 Ayotte Boozman Burr Chambliss Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Roberts Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Amendment No. 3584 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate equally divided on the Lee amendment. The Senator from Utah.”