Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 246 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand 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 Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--16 Barrasso Cotton Crapo Enzi Flake Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Risch Sasse Shelby Strange Toomey NOT VOTING--5 Graham Menendez Moran Stabenow Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays 16. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer falls. The Senator from Utah.”