Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 251 Leg.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boxer Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Scott Sessions Shaheen Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Vitter Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--36 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cruz Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Reid Rubio Schumer Shelby Stabenow Toomey Udall Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Boozman Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 36. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed to. ____________________”