Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 26, nays 73, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 340 Leg.] YEAS--26 Bennet Braun Cantwell Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Daines Graham Grassley Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Johnson Kelly Lee Lujan Marshall Paul Risch Rosen Rubio Sanders Schmitt Sinema Tester Vance NAYS--73 Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Hagerty Hassan Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lummis Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--1 Manchin The motion was rejected. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state. The legislative clerk read as follows: Cloture Motion We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the conference report to accompany H.R.…”