Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Leg.] YEAS--35 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Daines Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Wyden NAYS--60 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Graham Paul Rubio Vitter The amendment (No. 2612), as further modified, was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Missouri.”