Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Leg.] YEAS--57 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Brownback Cornyn Lincoln The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 57, the nays are 40. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Vote Explanation”