Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 268 Leg.] YEAS--59 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Manchin McCaskill Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Pryor Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Brownback The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to proceed having been tabled, the cloture motion is vitiated. ____________________”