Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senate from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. DeMint). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Leg.] Akaka Alexander Allard Allen Baucus Bayh Bennett Biden Bingaman Bond Boxer Brownback Bunning Burns Burr Byrd Cantwell Carper Chafee Chambliss Clinton Cochran Coleman Collins Conrad Cornyn Craig Crapo Dayton DeMint DeWine Dodd Dole Domenici Dorgan Durbin Ensign Feingold Feinstein Frist Graham Grassley Gregg Hagel Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inouye Isakson Jeffords Johnson Kennedy Kerry Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Martinez McCain McConnell Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Nelson (NE) Obama Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Salazar Santorum Sarbanes Schumer Sessions Shelby Smith Snowe Specter Stabenow Stevens Sununu Talent Voinovich Warner Wyden NAYS--4 Coburn Enzi Inhofe Thomas NOT VOTING--5 Corzine Landrieu Lott Thune Vitter The bill (H.R. 2862), as amended, was passed. (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.)”