Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--- yeas 69, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Leg.] YEAS--69 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chiesa Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Blunt Lee The amendment (No. 1183), as modified, was agreed to. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the committee-reported substitute, as amended. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.…”