Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Sentor from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 33, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 136 Leg.] YEAS--33 Begich Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Casey Coburn Dorgan Durbin Ensign Feingold Franken Harkin Kaufman Leahy Levin Lincoln Merkley Mikulski Murray Pryor Reid Rockefeller Sanders Shelby Specter Stabenow Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--61 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennet Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Burr Carper Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo Dodd Enzi Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg LeMieux Lieberman McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Risch Roberts Schumer Sessions Shaheen Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Voinovich Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Bennett Bunning Byrd DeMint Lugar Vitter The amendent (No. 3733) was rejected.”