Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi). The ACTING OFFICER pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Leg.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson King Kirk McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Enzi The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, the Senate has demonstrated that the House-passed bill lacks the support of 60 Senators.…”