Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Leg.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--12 Booker Braun Hawley Kennedy Lee Markey Merkley Paul Sanders Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Cotton Cruz Gardner Graham Jones Loeffler Perdue Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.”