Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). Mr. DURBIN: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 80 Leg.] YEAS--87 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--9 Booker Brown Cardin Menendez Merkley Murphy Reid Schatz Warren NOT VOTING--4 Boxer Cruz Heinrich Sanders The amendment (No. 3970) was agreed to.”