Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 41, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 234 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Bayh Bennet Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Burr Cantwell Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Cornyn Dorgan Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Lugar McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Roberts Shaheen Snowe Specter Thune Vitter Wicker Wyden NAYS--58 Akaka Barrasso Baucus Begich Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Bunning Burris Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Corker Crapo DeMint Dodd Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Gillibrand Goodwin Gregg Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman McCain Menendez Merkley Mikulski Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Lincoln The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 41, the nays are 58. Two-thirds of the Senators voting not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Motion to Suspend Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes for debate, equally divided, prior to the vote on the motion to suspend rule XXII offered by the Senator from Utah, Mr. Hatch. The Senator from Utah.”