Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Leg.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Ayotte Blunt Burr Carper Coburn Cochran Crapo Cruz Fischer Graham Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kaine Lee McCain Paul Portman Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Chiesa Risch The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Amendment No. 1208, as Modified Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No.…”