Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 108 Leg.] YEAS--49 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Mikulski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NAYS--39 Barrasso Bennet Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Alexander Boxer Byrd Crapo Dorgan Hutchison Isakson Kerry Murkowski Murray Rockefeller Wicker The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 257) was agreed to, as follows: H. Con. Res.…”