Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 259 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--18 Barrasso Chambliss Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Shelby Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Blunt Gillibrand Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 79, the nays are 18. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________”