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 ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 28, nays 69, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 246 Leg.] YEAS--28 Ayotte Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Toomey Vitter NAYS--69 Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Roberts Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3585 There will now be 2 minutes of debate prior to a vote on the Toomey amendment. The Senator from Pennsylvania.”