Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 156 Leg.] YEAS--85 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--13 Boxer Brown Capito Gillibrand Lee Manchin Merkley Murkowski Portman Sanders Schumer Udall Warren NOT VOTING--2 Murray Wyden The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 13. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer and the amendments thereto fall.”