Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 38, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 300 Leg.] YEAS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Duckworth Feinstein Franken Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Wyden NAYS--61 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Booker Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hatch Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Markey McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warren Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Whitehouse The motion was rejected. Amendment No. 1717 to Amendment No. 1618 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the Cantwell amendment by number. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Washington [Ms. Cantwell] proposes an amendment numbered 1717 to amendment No. 1618. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To strike title II) Strike title II. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided.…”