Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``no.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Ex.] YEAS--50 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 Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Wyden NAYS--36 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Paul Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--14 Alexander Coburn Cochran Landrieu McCain Mikulski Moran Murkowski Roberts Sanders Stabenow Toomey Vitter Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER…”