Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Hagan Harkin Inouye Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Bayh Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 43, the nays are 55. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Amendment No. 4497 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to strike, which is at the desk, is agreed to. The amendment was agreed to, as follows: Beginning on page 7, line 14, strike through page 11, line 18.…”