Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 145 Leg.] YEAS--71 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--27 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Murphy Murray Paul Reid Sanders Schatz Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kaine Thune The motion was agreed to. ____________________”