Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Ex.] YEAS--66 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--29 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cochran Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Boxer Coburn Hagan Sanders Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 29. The motion is agreed to. ____________________”