Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 129 Leg.] YEAS--85 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Duckworth Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Blackburn Braun Crapo Lee McSally Paul Risch Romney NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Capito Durbin Enzi Moran Rounds Toomey The bill (H.R. 2157), as amended, was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.”