Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Leg.] YEAS--63 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brownback Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Bunning Gregg Hatch Manchin The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.…”