Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT'' --1 Hatch NOT VOTING--8 Begich Blunt Graham Isakson Landrieu Rubio Vitter Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 38. One Senator responded ``Present.'' Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader.”