Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 37 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--22 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schumer Stabenow Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Corker Heller Jones McCain Rounds Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 22. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from North Dakota.”