Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 241 Leg.] YEAS--48 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Casey Durbin Ensign Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Merkley Nelson (NE) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--25 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brownback Burr Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Grassley Gregg Inhofe Johanns LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--27 Bayh Bunning Carper Chambliss Conrad Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Enzi Graham Hagan Hatch Hutchison Isaks…”