Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 41, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 179 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--57 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Burr NOT VOTING--1 Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 41, the nays are 57. One Senator responded ``present.'' Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 857 The question is on the underlying Menendez amendment. There is 2 minutes, evenly divided. The Senator from New Jersey.”