Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 40, nays 59, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kirk McCain Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Reed Reid Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Cotton The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40, the nays are 59. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL. Let me just say to my colleagues that Senate Republicans are prepared to pass a clean CR-Zika bill.…”