Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 34, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 299 Leg.] YEAS--34 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Duckworth Feinstein Franken Hassan Heinrich Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson Peters Schatz Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--65 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Booker Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hatch Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Markey McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schumer Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warren Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Heitkamp The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 34, the nays 65. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that following the disposition of the motion to commit, the Cantwell amendment No. 1717 be called up and reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”