Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 173 Leg.] YEAS--60 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Byrd Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Dorgan Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson Kohl Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker NAYS--37 Akaka Bayh Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Specter Stabenow Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Chambliss Lincoln McCaskill The amendment (No. 4253) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 8 minutes of debate equally divided to run concurrently on amendment No. 4273 to be offered by the Senator from North Carolina and amendment No. 4299 to be offered by the Senator from Hawaii. The Senator from Hawaii. Amendments Nos. 4299 and 4273”