Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 44, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Leg.] YEAS--44 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--51 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kohl Kyl Lee Lugar McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Feinstein Hutchison Inouye Kerry McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 44, the nays are 51. Two-thirds of those voting for adoption not having voted in the affirmative, the resolution, as amended, is rejected. The question is on agreeing to S. Res. 21, as amended.…”