Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 165 Leg.] YEAS--51 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennet Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Webb Wicker NAYS--46 Akaka Begich Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Byrd Chambliss Hagan The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The yeas are 51, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. Pursuant to the previous order, the amendment is withdrawn. Amendment No. 4228 There will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 4228 offered by the Senator from Arizona, Mr. Kyl.…”