Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 232 Leg.] YEAS--56 Akaka Baucus Bayh Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman 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--42 Alexander Barrasso Begich Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Gregg Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Amendment No. 4594”