Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Rounds). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 37, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Leg.] YEAS--37 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Gardner Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Kyl McConnell Murkowski Perdue Peters Portman Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Young NAYS--62 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Flake Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hyde-Smith Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Reed Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Graham Division III of amendment No. 4109 was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Amendment No. 4131 to Amendment No. 4108 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I call up Cruz amendment No. 4131 to amendment No. 4108. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell], for Mr. Cruz, proposes an amendment numbered 4131 to amendment No. 4108. Mr. McCONNELL.…”