Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Leg.] YEAS--71 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Risch Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--26 Baldwin Booker Boxer Brown Cardin Carper Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hirono Leahy Manchin Markey Merkley Mikulski Nelson Paul Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Graham Roberts Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. The question occurs on adoption of the conference report to accompany H.R. 1735. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”