Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 181 Leg.] YEAS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse NAYS--41 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--14 Alexander Corker Cruz Durbin Graham Isakson McCain Murkowski Murray Portman Rubio Scott Toomey Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Vote Announcement <bullet> Mr. DURBIN. I was unavoidably delayed on United flight No. 616 and not present for the vote on Senator Brown's amendment No. 1242 to increase funding levels for the Trade Adjustment Assistance program.…”