Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 39, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 151 Leg.] YEAS--39 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--54 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Cochran Feinstein Harkin Inhofe Mikulski Shelby Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Vermont.”