Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 44, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 254 Leg.] YEAS--44 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Dorgan Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Inouye Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--53 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Bunning Carper Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kohl Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Brownback Burr Lieberman The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 53. Two-thirds of the Senators voting not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. vote explanations”