Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Leg.] YEAS--35 Akaka Begich Bennet Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Casey Cochran Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Lautenberg Leahy LeMieux Levin McCaskill Merkley Mikulski Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--60 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennett Bingaman Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Carper Chambliss Coburn Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Byrd Lieberman Menendez Specter Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes in the affirmative, the amendment is not agreed to. Amendment No. 4146 to Amendment No. 3739”