Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Capito Graham Hoeven Kennedy Lujan Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”