Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 39, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 255 Leg.] YEAS--39 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennet Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Isakson Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux McCain McCaskill McConnell Nelson (FL) Risch Roberts Sessions Snowe Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--56 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennett Bingaman Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inhofe Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shelby Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Voinovich Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Bond Boxer Brownback Mikulski Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 39, the nays are 56. Two-thirds of the Senators voting not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Under the previous order, the question is on the Coburn motion to suspend the rules with respect to amendment No. 4696. There will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote. Who yields time?…”