Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--28 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Burr Durbin Flake Inhofe Lee McCain Murray Rubio Tillis Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Barrasso). On this vote, the yeas are 61 and the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________”