Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 162 Leg.] YEAS--59 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Specter The bill (H.R. 4173), as amended, was passed.”