Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.] YEAS--60 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Begich Hatch Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 37. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.”