Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 244 Leg.] YEAS--71 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Flake Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Roberts Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Amendment No. 3583 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate prior to the vote on the Carper amendment. The Senator from Delaware.”