Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 191 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Corker Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McCain Moran Paul Risch Sasse Strange Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Menendez Rubio Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 18. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Amendment No. 809 Withdrawn Cloture having been invoked, under the previous order, amendment No. 809 is withdrawn. Vote on Motion to Concur With Amendment No.…”