Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 14 Leg.] YEAS--70 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Lankford Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--26 Baldwin Booker Brown Cardin Cruz Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kennedy Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Merkley Murphy Paul Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cantwell Gardner Murkowski Perdue The amendment (No. 65), as amended, was agreed to. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state. The bill clerk read as follows: Cloture Motion We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on Calendar No. 1, S.…”