Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--26 Baldwin Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono King Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Paul Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Graham Leahy Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 69, the nays are 26. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”