Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 76 Leg.] YEAS--55 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Isakson The motion was agreed to. Amendment No. 3640 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 3640, offered by the Senator from South Dakota, Mr. Thune.”