Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 47 Leg.] YEAS--66 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Isakson Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, all time is yielded back. The question is on the engrossment of the amendment and third reading of the bill.…”