Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 38, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 27 Leg.] YEAS--38 Barrasso Baucus Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--58 Akaka Alexander Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Hutchison Inhofe Lautenberg Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 38, the nays are 58. Two-thirds of the Senate voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to concur with amendment No. 3326 is withdrawn.”