Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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. 212 Leg.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--44 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Bayh Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 44. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. There will now be 2 minutes evenly divided prior to a vote with respect to the DeMint motion. The Senator from South Carolina. Mr. DeMINT. Mr.…”