Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 267 Leg.] YEAS--53 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lincoln Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Brownback Gregg The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. ____________________”