Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 20, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 13, nays 71, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Leg.] YEAS--13 Braun Britt Daines Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lee Marshall Paul Scott (FL) Tuberville Vance NAYS--71 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Duckworth Ernst Feinstein Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Markey McConnell Merkley Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--16 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Coons Cornyn Cramer Durbin Kennedy Lummis Manchin Menendez Moran Romney Schmitt Scott (SC) Warnock The amendment (No. 376) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Fetterman). The Senator from Rhode Island.
Said by
John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

Share

More from John Thune

Jun 11, 2026

We need Democrat votes. And, as I've said before, I think irrespective of what you think about Bill Pulte, providing the reforms that are included in the 702 reauthorization is a safeguard, regardless of who's in that job, or which party…

foxnews.com
Jun 11, 2026

I don’t know what realistic is, but we’re gonna probe the limits of it.

rollcall.com
Jun 15, 2026

I’ve indicated to him in most cases — not all — that what he wants done, we just don’t have the votes for, and there’s nothing I can do to change that.

rollcall.com
Jun 17, 2026

The only way you can obviously get this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster, and that is not something that we have anywhere close to the votes to do.

dailycaller.com

Other voices in this conversation