Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 26 Leg.] YEAS--76 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Barrasso Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Gregg Kyl McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby NOT VOTING--4 Hutchison Inhofe Lautenberg Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 20. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader is recognized. Unanimous Consent Agreement”