Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 210 Leg.] YEAS--54 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Scott Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wyden NAYS--45 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 1578 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on amendment No. 1578, offered by the Senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Reed, for the Senator from New York, Mrs. Gillibrand. The Senator from New York.”