Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 38, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 33 Leg.] YEAS--38 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Inhofe Isakson Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--61 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Hutchison The PRESIDING OFFICER. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The point of order is sustained and the amendment fails. Amendment No. 3352 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 4 minutes of debate prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 3352 offered by the Senator from Iowa, Mr. Grassley. The Senator from Montana.”