Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Burris). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 190 Leg.] YEAS--45 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kohl Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Byrd Lincoln Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 52. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to concur with amendment No. 4301 to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 4213 is withdrawn.”