Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), 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 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 157 Leg.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Ayotte Boozman Isakson Manchin Moran Rockefeller Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 53, the nays are 40. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.”