Political Quotes

John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Oklahoma…

On the recordJuly 13, 2016
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Leg.] YEAS--89 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--4 Casey Cassidy Moran Toomey NOT VOTING--7 Cochran Inhofe Roberts Rounds Sessions Shelby Wicker The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
Said by
John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
Source
govinfo.gov
Jul 13, 2016

Share

More from John Cornyn

Aug 8, 2026

President Trump needs someone in this role, as well with a strong legal mind, but who also is close enough to him to give him confidential legal advice to tell him hard truths.

npr.org
Aug 8, 2026

As communities in Texas’ Gulf Coast region and the Rio Grande Valley continue to face devastating drought conditions, it’s crucial that we make investments in water infrastructure improvements to ensure our state has enough water to meet…

padilla.senate.gov
Jul 31, 2026

I'm not prepared to vote yes without an agreement.

cbsnews.com
Jul 31, 2026

That's a convenient excuse, and it happens to be untrue.

cbsnews.com

Other voices in this conversation