Political Quotes

On the recordDecember 19, 2013
in order to offer that amendment and others that I believe would be in order and should be allowed to be offered, I move to table the pending Reid motion to concur with a further amendment, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 283 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey 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 Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden The motion was rejected.
Said by
John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

Share

More from John Cornyn

Jun 12, 2026

It does give some of us a little more freedom, and certainly leverage.

huffpost.com
Jul 17, 2026

We needed to set the record straight there because I think some people are under the impression that just because he says, ‘Well, we’re not going to pursue the weaponization fund,’ that it couldn’t be revived at a later time.

huffpost.com
Jun 18, 2026

I think this is just an intermission. I don’t think this is a conclusion.

rollcall.com
Jun 20, 2026

I would encourage them to continue to take the fight to Hezbollah, because, unfortunately, now Iran is going to have hundreds of millions of dollars to support its terrorist proxies, including Hezbollah.

cbsnews.com

Other voices in this conversation