Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Ex.] YEAS--59 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--36 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Durbin Hirono Sanders Udall Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Alaska.”