Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 222 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) King Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Walsh Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Alexander Begich Corker Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 51, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”