Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Ohio ( Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 111 Leg.] YEAS--63 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse NAYS--30 Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Crapo Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Merkley Murkowski Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Shaheen Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Boxer Cornyn Cruz Flake Lautenberg Portman Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 63, the nays are 30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.…”