Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Leg.] YEAS--60 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cardin Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Thune Vitter Voinovich Wyden NAYS--30 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Carper Casey Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Leahy Levin Reed Sanders Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--10 Byrd Chambliss Coburn Isakson Lincoln McCaskill Merkley Schumer Warner Wicker The motion was agreed to.”