Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 169 Leg.] YEAS--53 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kohl Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Chambliss The motion was agreed to. Amendment No. 4232 The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 4232 offered by the Senator from Oklahoma. The Senator from Hawaii.”