Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 223 Leg.] YEAS--95 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Chambliss Coburn Gregg Murkowski Vitter The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.”