Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 41, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Barrasso Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Bennett Byrd Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 41, the nays are 56. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. Amendment No. 3475 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes, evenly divided, before a vote with respect to the McCain amendment. Who yields time? The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN.…”