Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 311 Ex.] YEAS--53 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cruz Kirk Landrieu Leahy Rockefeller Udall (CO) Udall (NM) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”