Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), 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.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 271 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran 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--15 Alexander Blunt Coburn Corker Crapo Graham Hatch Inhofe Johnson (SD) Kirk Merkley Mikulski Nelson Rockefeller Schatz The motion was agreed to. ____________________”