Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) would vote ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Leg.] YEAS--85 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Wicker Wyden NAYS--13 Akaka Bingaman Brown (OH) Byrd Cardin Dorgan Kaufman Levin Reed Udall (NM) Voinovich Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Nelson (FL) Warner The amendment (No. 3724), as modified, was agreed to.”