Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 39 Leg.] YEAS--49 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Hatch Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. Amendment No. 1589 There will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No.…”