Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 9 Leg.] YEAS--55 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Barrasso Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Perdue Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Boxer Cruz Gardner Inhofe Mikulski Paul Rubio Sanders The amendment (No. 2965) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.”