Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 4 Leg.] YEAS--97 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Murkowski Warner Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 97, the nays are 0. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment, as modified, is agreed to. Amendment No. 3302 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 3302, offered by the Senator from North Dakota, Mr. Conrad.”