Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 273 Leg.] YEAS--47 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kirk Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--52 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Begich The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 52. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the DeMint motion to suspend with respect to amendment No. 4804. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.…”