Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Leg.] YEAS--82 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cardin Coburn Feinstein Hirono Markey Menendez Murphy Reed Warren NOT VOTING--6 Begich Flake Isakson Landrieu Schatz Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.”