Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 150 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Baucus Bayh 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 Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Byrd Hutchison Lautenberg Nelson (FL) Stabenow The amendment (No. 3987) was rejected. Amendment No. 3879 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on amendment No. 3879, offered by the Senator from Maine. The amendment is agreed to, and the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The amendment (No. 3879) was agreed to.”