Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 248 Leg.] YEAS--82 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--17 Barrasso Corker Cotton Crapo Enzi Flake Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Risch Sasse Shelby Strange Toomey NOT VOTING--1 Menendez The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table with respect to the prior vote. The Senator from Idaho. ____________________”