Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 184 Leg.] YEAS--59 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kohl Kyl Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--40 Akaka Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 40. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Oklahoma. Amendment No. 796”