Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 128 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Warner Wicker Young NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Flake Isakson Moran Murkowski Sasse Toomey Thre PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Ernst). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________”