[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 101 (Tuesday, July 23, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S7189]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
go into executive session and proceed to the cloture vote on Executive 
Calendar No. 921, which the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

                            Cloture Motion 

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on Executive Calendar 
     No. 921, the nomination of Richard H. Carmona, of Arizona, to 
     be the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service:
         Edward M. Kennedy, Debbie Stabenow, Tom Daschle, Harry 
           Reid, Jack Reed, Richard J. Durbin, Barbara Mikulski, 
           Patrick Leahy, Jean Carnahan, Tom Carper, Byron L. 
           Dorgan, Paul Wellstone, Jon Corzine, Jeff Bingaman, 
           Daniel Inouye, Kent Conrad.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on 
Executive Calendar No. 921, the nomination of Richard H. Carmona, of 
Arizona, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public 
Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, 
shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) are necessarily 
absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Exe.]

                                YEAS--98

     Akaka
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Helms
     Specter
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are 0. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Arizona.
  Mr. McCAIN. Thank you, Madam President. It is my understanding we are 
now in postcloture debate time; is that correct?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.