Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Leg.] YEAS--59 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich 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 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--39 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 Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Hutchison Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 39. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion on reconsideration is rejected. The Senator from North Dakota is recognized. ____________________”