Political Quotes

“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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 281 Leg.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--14 Baldwin Booker Brown Coons Franken Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Paul Sanders Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Graham Rubio Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 14. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Amendment No. 2564, as Modified There will now be 10 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 2564, offered by the Senator from North Carolina, Mr.…”