Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 158 Leg.] YEAS--57 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand 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 Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Reid Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Specter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.”