Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 7 Leg.] YEAS--44 Akaka Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Lieberman Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 54. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is withdrawn. Amendment No. 9 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 9, offered by the Senator from Michigan, Ms.…”