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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 8 Leg.] YEAS--81 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--17 Akaka Carper Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Lautenberg Leahy Levin Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Lieberman Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays are 17. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion to waive having been agreed to, the amendment is agreed to under the previous order. Amendment No. 13 The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”