Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 24 Leg.] YEAS--62 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inhofe Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Hutchison Lautenberg Levin McCain The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote the yeas are 62, the nays are 34. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, amendment No. 3311 is withdrawn. The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur with an amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2847.”