Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 39, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 278 Ex.] YEAS--39 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Murkowski Roberts Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--13 Blunt Burr Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Harris Loeffler Paul Perdue Portman Risch Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 39, the nays are 48. The motion is not agreed to. The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection. ____________________”