Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 32, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 283 Ex.] YEAS--32 Barrasso Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--60 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--8 Bunning DeMint Isakson Kirk Shaheen Specter Voinovich Wyden The amendment was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.”