Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Brown). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Leg.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Chiesa Risch The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.”