Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Leg.] YEAS--80 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dodd Ensign Enzi Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Schumer Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker NAYS--18 Boxer Brown (OH) Dorgan Durbin Feingold Franken Harkin Leahy McCaskill Merkley Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Shaheen Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Lincoln Specter The amendment (No. 4071) was agreed to.”