Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 43, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 17 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Manchin McCain Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Sessions Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker NAYS--54 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cotton Crapo Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Reid Risch Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Rubio Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 43, the nays are 54. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL.…”