Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Burris). 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. 218 Leg.] YEAS--60 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bond DeMint Leahy 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. ____________________”