Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 272 Leg.] YEAS--83 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Dodd Dorgan Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Gregg Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--15 Bingaman Brown (OH) Coburn DeMint Ensign Feingold Gillibrand Hagan Lautenberg Leahy Levin Sanders Sessions Udall (CO) Voinovich NOT VOTING--2 Merkley Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 15. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.”