Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Alaska (Mrs. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, 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 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 38 Ex.] YEAS--58 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Barrasso Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Hatch NOT VOTING--7 Blunt Cornyn Graham Murkowski Nelson Risch Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”