Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Leg.] YEAS--56 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Cruz The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Ohio. Amendment No. 311”