Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Ayotte). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 41, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 289 Leg.] YEAS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Daines Durbin Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Warren Wyden NAYS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Graham Paul Rubio Vitter The amendment (No. 2552), as further modified, was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Carolina.”