Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 122 Leg.] YEAS--35 Ayotte Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) King Kirk Lee McCain McCaskill Moran Murphy Paul Roberts Rubio Scott Thune Toomey Whitehouse NAYS--61 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Johnson (SD) Kaine Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Lautenberg Murkowski Murray Risch The amendment (No. 816) was rejected. Amendment No. 822 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 822 offered by the Senator from Arkansas, Mr. Boozman. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.”