Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The Chair will remind the galleries that expressions of approval or disapproval are not in order. The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 281 Leg.] YEAS--65 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brownback Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Bunning Gregg Hatch Manchin The motion was agreed to.”