Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 26, nays 70, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Leg.] YEAS--26 Baldwin Begich Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Casey Cowan Gillibrand Hirono King Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall (NM) Warren Wyden NAYS--70 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cardin Carper Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Coburn Inhofe Murkowski Whitehouse The amendment (No. 931) was rejected.”