Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Leg.] YEAS--57 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Byrd Roberts Rockefeller The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.”