Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 250 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--18 Blumenthal Booker Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Merkley Murphy Sanders Schatz Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Heinrich Leahy Menendez The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Oklahoma.”