Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 38 Leg.] YEAS--61 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bond Hutchison Isakson The motion was agreed to. Baucus Amendment No. 3336 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes equally divided prior to a vote on the motion to waive a budget point of order on amendment No. 3336. Who yields time? Mr. LeMIEUX. Mr.…”