Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Blunt Boxer Burr Coburn Cruz Hoeven Markey Moran The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The majority leader is recognized.”