Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Leg.] YEAS--57 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 57, the nays are 41. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I indicated to my friends on the other side of the aisle I would be propounding a consent agreement.…”