Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 271 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Boozman Coats Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Heller Inhofe Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Blunt Corker Graham Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer falls. The Senator from Texas. Vote on Amendment No. 2690”