Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from New Mexico, (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from New Mexico, (Mr. Udall) would vote ``yea.'' Mr. Kyl. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Benett), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Leg.] YEAS--93 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Bennett Byrd DeMint Isakson Sanders Udall (NM) Wicker The bill (H.R.…”