Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 180 Leg.] YEAS--60 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Burr NOT VOTING--1 Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the ayes are 60, the nays are 38, 1 Senator voting ``present.'' The amendment is agreed to.”