Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.] YEAS--53 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--45 Akaka Baucus Bingaman Boxer Brown Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Hagan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is withdrawn.”