Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 17 Ex.] YEAS--60 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--32 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brownback Bunning Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McConnell Murkowski Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Bond Burr Gregg Hutchison McCain Risch Roberts Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”