Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 232 Ex.] YEAS--68 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--23 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Risch Rubio Scott Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Begich Coburn Coons Moran Paul Roberts Sanders Schatz The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 68, the nays are 23. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”