Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Leg.] YEAS--82 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Bunning Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--14 Burr Chambliss Coburn Crapo DeMint Feingold Hatch Inhofe Isakson LeMieux McCain Nelson (NE) Risch Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Bayh Brownback Gregg Wyden The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.”