Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``yea,'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 21 Ex.] YEAS--84 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo Dodd Dorgan Durbin Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--16 Brownback Byrd Cas…”