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 result was announced--yeas 27, nays 70, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Leg.] YEAS--27 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Boxer Brown (OH) Carper Casey Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Hagan Harkin Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lincoln Menendez Merkley Pryor Specter Tester Wyden NAYS--70 Alexander Barrasso Bingaman Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Risch Roberts Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bennett Byrd Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 27, the nays are 70. 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. The amendment falls. Recognition of the Minority Leader The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader is recognized. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I wish to proceed for a few moments on my leader time.…”