Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 134 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Franken Klobuchar Lee Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, upon consideration, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. ____________________”