Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.] YEAS--56 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Carper Chambliss Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Klobuchar Kyl LeMieux Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Warner Webb Wicker NAYS--44 Akaka Baucus Bingaman Boxer Brown Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Casey Cochran Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Kirk Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Specter Stabenow Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 44. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is withdrawn. The majority leader.”