Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Dorgan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Leg.] YEAS--51 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennet Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Franken Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Shelby Snowe Specter Thune Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--48 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Gillibrand Goodwin Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 48. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The clerk will now read the Budget Committee letter. The bill clerk read as follows: Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation for H.R. 5297, as amended by amendment No. 4594. Total Budgetary Effects of H.R.…”