Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Leg.] YEAS--61 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--36 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Peters Sanders Schumer Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Menendez Nelson Rubio The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Amendment No. 545 to Amendment No. 1003 Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I call up amendment No. 545. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell], for Mr. McCain, proposes an amendment numbered 545 to amendment No. 1003. Mr. McCONNELL.…”