Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 140 Ex.] YEAS--57 Ayotte Baldwin 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 Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Chambliss Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Begich Boozman Burr Coburn Moran Pryor The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 57 and the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, with respect to the Talwani, Peterson, and Rosenstengel nominations, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table.…”