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 61, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.] YEAS--61 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Dorgan Ensign Enzi Feingold Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kaufman Klobuchar Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Levin Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Murray Reid Risch Roberts Sanders Sessions Shelby Snowe Specter Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Wicker Wyden NAYS--38 Akaka Baucus Bingaman Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kerry Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Lieberman Merkley Mikulski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Byrd The amendment (No. 3774), as modified, was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware is recognized. ____________________”