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 43, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Byrd Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Lincoln Specter The amendment (No. 4034) was rejected.”