Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Leg.] YEAS -- 64 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Crapo Dorgan Durbin Ensign Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--35 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn DeMint Dodd Enzi Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Reed Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Voinovich NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The amendment (No. 3991) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts. Visit to the Senate by President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan”