Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 167 Leg.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kohl Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker NAYS--43 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Specter Stabenow Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Byrd Chambliss Shaheen The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Pursuant to the previous order, the amendment is withdrawn. Amendment No. 4204 There will now be 15 minutes of debate equally divided among the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. Feingold, the Senator from Oklahoma, Mr.…”