Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 7 Leg.] YEAS--46 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennet Bennett Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kohl Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Risch Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Wicker NAYS--48 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Byrd Mikulski Roberts Voinovich Warner Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 48. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this division, the division is withdrawn. Amendment No. 3303, Division III There will now be 6 minutes of debate equally divided on Coburn division III. Who yields time? The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.”