Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--52 yeas, 39 nays, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 263 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Alexander Ayotte Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Blunt Chambliss Donnelly Harkin Hatch Moran Roberts Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”