Political Quotes

On the recordJune 18, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Leg.] YEAS--94 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Cochran Harkin Inhofe Mikulski Shelby Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to.
Said by
John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

Share & report

More from John Cornyn

Jun 20, 2025

President Trump made the courageous and correct decision to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat.

cnn.com
Jul 16, 2025

I’ve talked to him about it a number of times. He is not ready to make that endorsement.

nbcnews.com
Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Paxton has a checkered background, he is a con man and a fraud.

nbcnews.com
Jul 10, 2025

There’s plenty of other reasons that I could comment on in terms of character, but I’ll probably just leave that alone.

huffpost.com

Other voices in this conversation