Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 290 Ex.] YEAS--68 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Scott Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Coburn Flake Isakson Johanns Reid The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”