Political Quotes

“before asking for the yeas and nays, I want to thank my friend again, Senator Inhofe, for mentioning our staff. John Peter has done such good work with all of our staffs. We put the names of our staffs in the Record a day or two ago and they deserve that and a lot more. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Walsh). Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. The result was announced--yeas 18, nays 82, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 323 Leg.] YEAS--18 Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cruz Grassley Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Rubio Scott Sessions Thune Vitter NAYS--82 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden The motion was rejected. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Oklahoma. Motion to Suspend Rule XXII”