Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT'' --3 Chambliss Hatch Isakson NOT VOTING--4 Boxer Cruz Enzi Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 38, and three Senators responded ``Present.'' Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The majority leader.”