Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 98 Leg.] YEAS--67 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Markey Rockefeller Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to table the appeal on the ruling of the Chair is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________”