Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 12 Leg.] YEAS--72 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Chambliss Coburn The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 72, the nays are 26. 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 as being inconsistent with cloture. Under the previous order, the motion to concur with an amendment is withdrawn. All postcloture time is yielded back.…”