Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 37, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Leg.] YEAS--37 Barrasso Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dorgan Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson LeMieux Lincoln McCain Murkowski Risch Roberts Sanders Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--62 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Corker Dodd Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The amendment (No. 3760) was rejected.”