Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 43, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--53 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Byrd Hutchison Inhofe Lautenberg The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 43, the nays are 53. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.”