Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 247 Leg.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Barrasso Corker Cotton Crapo Enzi Flake Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Risch Sasse Shelby Strange Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--1 Menendez The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Strange). On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The point of order falls. Motion to Concur The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur.”