Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Kyl Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--18 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Menendez Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Corker Flake Johnson Merkley Paul Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, and the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”