Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 165 Ex.] YEAS--56 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--39 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Leahy McCain Moran Sasse Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Utah. Mr HATCH. Mr. President, is it appropriate to make a speech at this time? The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is.”