Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 59, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Leg.] YEAS--35 Barrasso Bingaman Bond Brownback Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Ensign Enzi Feingold Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Kohl Kyl Lincoln McCain McConnell Merkley Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Wicker Wyden NAYS--59 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Mikulski 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--6 Bennett Bunning Byrd DeMint Lugar Vitter The amendment (No. 3898) was rejected.”