Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 298 Ex.] YEAS--71 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Burr Chambliss Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Kirk Kyl LeMieux McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bond Brownback Bunning The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 26. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting having voted in the affirmative, the resolution of ratification, as amended, is agreed to.…”