Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri, (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 63, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 297 Ex.] YEAS--30 Barrasso Brown (MA) Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--63 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Isakson Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--7 Bayh Begich Bond Brownback Gregg Shelby Wyden The amendment (No. 4893) was rejected.”