Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 256 Ex.] YEAS--58 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Cochran Cornyn Hagan Harkin Roberts Schatz Scott Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 58, the nays are 33.…”