Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Leg.] YEAS--47 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cardin Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse NAYS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murray Nelson Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Enzi The amendment (No. 1251) was rejected. Amendment No. 1226 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on amendment No. 1226, offered on behalf of the Senator from Arizona, Mr. McCain. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, this amendment is to try to repeal one of the great ripoffs in the history of this body. We waste $15 million a year on a catfish inspection office which is not only duplicative but disgraceful.…”