Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any oher Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Ex.] YEAS--71 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--27 Barrasso Boozman Coats Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Lautenberg Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 71 and the nays are 27. Upon reconsideration, three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader.”