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 38, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 183 Leg.] YEAS--38 Akaka Baucus Bayh Bingaman Burris Cardin Carper Casey Dodd Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse NAYS--61 Alexander Barrasso Begich Bennet Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dorgan Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reid Risch Roberts Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Thune Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The motion to table was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 4302), as modified, is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont. Amendment No. 4318 to Amendment No. 4301”