Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Leg.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--17 Corker Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Paul Risch Sasse Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Menendez Rubio Sullivan The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________”