Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 143 Leg.] YEAS--91 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--8 Akaka Dodd Harkin Inouye Levin Reed Sanders Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The amendment (No. 3759, as modified) was agreed to. Change of Vote”