Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 30 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Crapo Hatch Johanns Johnson (SD) Lautenberg Mikulski Udall (CO) Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the ayes are 51 and the nays are 41. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader.”