Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 31, nays 67, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Leg.] YEAS--31 Burr Cassidy Collins Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Sullivan Thune Toomey Young NAYS--67 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Reed Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Sessions Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 31, the nays are 67. 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. Amendment No. 19 Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to amendment No.…”