Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 36, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 256 Leg.] YEAS--36 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Wicker NAYS--62 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Bond Brownback The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 36, the nays are 62. Two-thirds of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.”