Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``aye'' and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``aye.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Leg.] YEAS--88 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--1 Lee NOT VOTING--11 Boxer Cantwell Coburn Hagan Hoeven Murkowski Murray Rubio Sanders Shaheen Thune The motion was agreed to. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. COBURN. Mr.…”