Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 259 Leg.] YEAS--53 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lincoln Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Crapo DeMint Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Harkin Hatch Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Rockefeller Shelby Snow…”