Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) is necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 134 Leg.] YEAS--61 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch 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) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Alexander Barrasso Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Ensign Enzi Grassley Gregg Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns LeMieux McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Bennett Byrd DeMint Kyl Lugar Voinovich The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The majority leader is recognized.”