Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 245 Leg.] YEAS--48 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennet Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker NAYS--51 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is withdrawn. Amendment No. 4677 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided on the DeMint amendment. The Senator from South Carolina. Mr. DeMINT. Mr. President, my amendment only makes one change to the underlying continuing resolution.…”