Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 33, nays 63, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Leg.] YEAS--33 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--63 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cochran Johanns McCaskill Rockefeller The amendment (No. 3379) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the Senator from Utah, Mr. Lee.”