Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 46, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Leg.] YEAS--46 Akaka Baucus Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Levin Lincoln Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--51 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Carper Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Specter Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bond DeMint Leahy The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 51. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to concur is withdrawn.…”