Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), 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 76, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Leg.] YEAS---76 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS---19 Ayotte Boozman Cotton Ernst Fischer Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McConnell Paul Perdue Portman Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Tillis Vitter NOT VOTING---5 Blunt Cruz Durbin Murphy Sanders The amendment (No. 3833) was agreed to. vote explanation <bullet> Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent from this afternoon's vote on Franken amendment No. 3833, which was adopted to the pending business--Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, H.R. 2028. On rollcall vote No.…”