Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 166 Leg.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Murkowski Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--44 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Chambliss The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. Pursuant to previous order, the amendment is withdrawn. Amendment No. 4202, as Further Modified There will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No.…”