Political Quotes

On the recordNovember 4, 2015
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 297 Leg.] YEAS--53 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Graham Rubio Vitter The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 22) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res. 22 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ``Clean Water Rule: Definition of `Waters of the United States' '' (80 Fed. Reg.…
Said by
John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

Share

More from John Cornyn

Jul 23, 2026

“It’s not good enough,” Cornyn told HuffPost on Tuesday.

huffpost.com
Jul 14, 2026

I think we need some transparency.

abcnews.com
Jul 17, 2026

Congress must do more to protect innocent Americans who are being defrauded left and right while crooks and illegal migrants profit.

ernst.senate.gov
Jul 23, 2026

We are going to use the committee vote tomorrow as a way to … get the money distributed the way Congress appropriated it.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Other voices in this conversation