Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Leg.] YEAS--62 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--30 Alexander Barrasso Bunning Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Graham Grassley Gregg Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Bennett Brownback Burr Enzi Hatch Isakson Lautenberg Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs.…”