Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from AZ (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 17 Leg.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--18 Blumenthal Booker Cortez Masto Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Paul Sanders Tester Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 McCain The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, after 3 days of an unnecessary lapse in funding, a bipartisan majority has brought the Democratic leader's extraordinary filibuster to an end and passed a bipartisan bill to reopen the Federal Government. As I have said repeatedly over the past week, shutting down the government is an irresponsible way to do business.…”