Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh), 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 ``aye.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Burris). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 117 Leg.] YEAS--59 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bayh Nelson (FL) Warner The bill (H.R. 4851), as amended, was passed, as follows: H.R. 4851 Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R.…”