Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 252 Leg.] YEAS--69 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Johanns Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Bennett Bond Bunning Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Graham Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kyl McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Brownback Burr Lieberman Pryor Tester The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.”