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 33, nays 64, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Ex.] YEAS--33 Barrasso Bond Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--64 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Isakson Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--3 Bayh Brownback Wyden The amendment (No. 4833) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes, equally divided-- The majority leader.”