Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Leg.] YEAS--58 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Reid Risch Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bond DeMint Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 58, the nays are 38. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.”