Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 86 Leg.] YEAS--54 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Carper Coats Coburn Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Gillibrand Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Warner Webb Wicker NAYS--45 Barrasso Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Collins Conrad Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Harkin Inouye Isakson Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lugar Menendez Merkley Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Shaheen Snowe Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lieberman The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 45. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. <bullet> Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I regret that for personal reasons I could not be present in the Senate for the vote on the Tester amendment No.…”