Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr, Kaine) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote ``yea''. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 149 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--21 Booker Cruz Daines Franken Graham Heitkamp Heller Inhofe Lankford Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Paul Perdue Peters Sasse Scott Sessions Stabenow Warren NOT VOTING--2 Kaine Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 21. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion, upon consideration, is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to commit falls. The majority leader. Amendments Nos. 5083 and 5085 Withdrawn Mr. McCONNELL.…”