Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necesarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 273 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--10 Alexander Boxer Coburn Crapo Graham Hatch Inhofe Kirk McCaskill Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”