Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Leg.] YEAS--47 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--50 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Byrd Lincoln Specter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 50. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is withdrawn. The Senator from Connecticut is recognized.”