Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 21, nays 78, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Leg.] YEAS--21 Booker Cantwell Casey Coons Donnelly Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Jones Leahy Markey McCaskill Merkley Murray Peters Sanders Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Wyden NAYS--78 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 21, the nays are 78. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. The Senator from Oregon.”