Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 253 Leg.] YEAS--61 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Brown (MA) Bunning Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker NAYS--35 Akaka Baucus Begich Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Carper Casey Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Brownback Burr Lieberman Pryor The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 35. Two-thirds of the Senators voting not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Senator from Montana. Motion to Suspend”