Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 310 Ex.] YEAS--66 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Boxer Burr Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Risch Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Coburn Cochran Cruz Kirk Landrieu Leahy Rockefeller Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 26. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”