Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 117 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--29 Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Cardin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Sullivan Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Durbin Manchin Warner The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate a message from the House of Representatives. The legislative clerk read as follows: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 764) entitled ``An Act to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes,'' do pass with an amendment.…”