Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 336 Leg.] YEAS--72 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Boozman Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Lee Manchin McCain Moran Paul Risch Sanders Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Boxer Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I am going to ask everybody to take their seats. I am going to ask everyone to sit in their seat.…”