Political Quotes

On the recordJune 5, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Ex.] YEAS--60 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--33 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Booker Gillibrand Markey Moran Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 33. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
Source
govinfo.gov
Jun 5, 2019

Share

More from Dick Durbin

Aug 18, 2026

Simply put, no president has the authority to unilaterally demolish and remodel the country’s White House in such a significant manner without congressional approval.

durbin.senate.gov
Aug 21, 2026

Timely access to blood can be the difference between life and death, especially in a medical emergency.

durbin.senate.gov
Aug 17, 2026

Five years at $200 million amounts to $1 billion… it represents 48 hours in the war in Iran.

durbin.senate.gov
Aug 22, 2026

Today’s announcement means that we can see that growth sooner rather than later.

duckworth.senate.gov

Other voices in this conversation