Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 248 Leg.] YEAS--54 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Casey Conrad Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Goodwin Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Bond Carper Dodd Kyl Murkowski Rockefeller Sanders The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 321) was agreed to, as follows: H. Con. Res.…”