Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. LeMieux) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 187 Leg.] YEAS--35 Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Kaufman Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--61 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Kerry Kyl Landrieu Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Byrd Johnson LeMieux Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 35, the nays are 61. Under the previous order, requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is withdrawn.”