Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 139 Leg.] YEAS--85 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Barrasso Coats Corker Enzi Flake Isakson Lee Perdue Sasse Scott Sessions Tillis NOT VOTING--3 Ayotte Kaine Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. Vote on Amendment No. 4979, as Amended The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on amendment No. 4979, as amended, offered by the Senator from Kentucky, Mr.…”