Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Leg.] YEAS--87 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--10 Cruz Flake Heller Inhofe Lankford Lee Paul Risch Scott Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Menendez Rubio Sullivan The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rounds). The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. For the information of all of our colleagues, the next vote will be on the motion to table the Sasse motion on disaster funding. With a little bit of cooperation, we will then set two votes after lunch to get to passage of the bill this afternoon so it can be sent over to the House today. Senators should expect additional votes right after lunch.…”