Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Leg.] YEAS--62 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Byrd McCaskill The bill (H.R. 4213) was passed. (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.)”