Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 41, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Leg.] YEAS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Crapo Daines Durbin Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Warren Wyden NAYS--55 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Paul Rubio Vitter The amendment (No. 2621), as modified, was rejected. Amendment No. 2548, as Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question occurs on amendment No. 2548, as modified, offered by the Senator from Nevada, Mr. Heller. There is 2 minutes of debate equally divided. The Senator from Nevada.”