Political Quotes

“I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 172 Leg.] YEAS--45 Begich Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Casey Coburn Collins Conrad Corker DeMint Feinstein Franken Grassley Heller Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Kohl Leahy Lee Levin McCain McCaskill Merkley Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (NM) Vitter Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--55 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Blunt Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Carper Chambliss Coats Cochran Coons Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Lieberman Lugar Manchin McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murray Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Toomey Udall (CO) Warner Webb Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 55. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 750 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there is now 2 minutes equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 750, as modified, offered by the Senator from Virginia, Mr. Webb. Who yields time? The Senator from Virginia.”