Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 42, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Leg.] YEAS--42 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Warner Wicker NAYS--57 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley 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 Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The amendment (No. 3955) was rejected.”