Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 278 Leg.] YEAS--55 Akaka Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Bunning Gregg Hatch Manchin The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber who wish to vote or change their vote?…”