Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett) and the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 19 Ex.] YEAS--82 Akaka Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown Brownback Burr Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn DeMint Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Inhofe Inouye Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--16 Alexander Bond Bunning Chambliss Cochran Crapo Grassley Gregg Hatch Isakson Kyl McConnell Risch Sessions Shelby Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Bennett Hutchison The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 16. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader is recognized.”