Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 309 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Grassley Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Moran Portman Risch Scott Sessions Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Coburn Cochran Cruz Landrieu Leahy Rockefeller Udall (CO) The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 24. The motion is agreed to. Change of Vote”