Political Quotes

“on rollcall No. 200, the Berkley Amendment to H.R. 5427, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment Offered by Mr. Markey The Acting CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 161, noes 255, not voting 16, as follows: [Roll No. 201] AYES--161 Ackerman Allen Andrews Baca Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bradley (NH) Brown (OH) Brown-Waite, Ginny Butterfield Capps Cardin Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Clay Cleaver Conyers Cooper Crowley Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Doggett Doyle Ehlers Emanuel Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Flake Foley Ford Fossella Frank (MA) Frelinghuysen Garrett (NJ) Gordon Grijalva Gutierrez Gutknecht Hastings (FL) Higgins Hinchey Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jones (OH) Kaptur Kelly Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kind Kline LaHood Langevin Lantos Larson (CT) Leach Lee Levin Lewis (GA) LoBiondo Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Maloney Markey…”