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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 211 Leg.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Voinovich Webb Wicker NAYS--49 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Bayh Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 49. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. There is now 2 minutes evenly divided before a vote pertaining to the next Coburn motion. Is all time yielded back?”