Political Quotes

On the recordMarch 5, 2014
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn would have voted -``nay.'' The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Ex.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Walsh Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Cornyn The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote the yeas are 47, the nays are 52. The motion is rejected. The Senator from Nevada.
Said by
John Thune
Republican · South Dakota
Source
govinfo.gov
Mar 5, 2014

Share

More from John Thune

Aug 10, 2026

It seems to me sometimes I’m the only one who can count to 50 in this town.

rollcall.com
Jul 29, 2026

There's clearly an interest among certain members of our conference for a higher level of military and defense.

axios.com

Other voices in this conversation