Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote yea. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 151 Leg.] YEAS--72 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--26 Booker Corker Cruz Flake Franken Graham Heitkamp Heller Inhofe Lankford Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Paul Perdue Peters Risch Sasse Scott Sessions Stabenow Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kaine Sanders The bill (H.R. 5325), as amended, was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama. ____________________”