Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 22, nays 73, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 290 Leg.] YEAS--22 Boozman Capito Cornyn Cotton Fischer Grassley Inhofe Isakson Kirk Lankford McCain McConnell Perdue Portman Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Whitehouse NAYS--73 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Risch Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Graham Paul Rubio Vitter The amendment (No. 2581), as modified, was rejected.”