Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Graham). Are there any other Senators in the chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Leg.] YEAS--84 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--9 Booker Durbin Gillibrand Lee Markey Merkley Paul Sanders Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Burr Isakson Leahy Menendez Nelson Rubio Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 9. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Nebraska.”