Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 178 Ex.] YEAS--53 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Paul Portman Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--13 Begich Boxer Cochran Graham Isakson Landrieu McCaskill Moran Murkowski Risch Roberts Schatz Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 53, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Nevada.”