Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay,'' the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Leg.] YEAS--55 Ayotte Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Baldwin Begich Boozman…”