Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 125 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Alexander Barrasso Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Risch Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--19 Bayh Bennett Bond Byrd Carper Ensign Johanns Johnson Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lieberman Mikulski Murkowski Roberts Rockefeller Voinovich Webb Wicker The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The Senator from New Jersey.”