Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 7 Leg.] YEAS--87 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Lankford Leahy Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--4 Hirono Lee Markey Merkley NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Cruz Inhofe Klobuchar Mikulski Nelson Paul Rubio Sanders The amendment (No. 3021) was agreed to. Vote on Amendment No. 2982 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on agreeing to amendment No. 2982.”