Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), 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 47, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 286 Leg.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Cardin Casey Cassidy Coons Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Kaine Lankford Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Peters Portman Reed Sanders Sullivan Tester Toomey Udall Warren Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Carper Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Feinstein Fischer Graham Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Manchin McCain McConnell Mikulski Murphy Nelson Perdue Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Thune Tillis Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Paul Rubio Vitter The amendment (No. 2548), as modified, was rejected. Amendment No. 2587, as Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question occurs on amendment No. 2587, as modified, offered by the Senator from Vermont, Mr. Leahy. The Democratic leader.”