[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 167 (Tuesday, November 18, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S14974-S14993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Under the previous order, the clerk will report the motion to invoke 
cloture.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. COCHRAN. Reserving the right to object, what is the request?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has suggested the absence of a 
quorum.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, I suggest there is a quorum present.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection, then?
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Under the previous order, the clerk will report the motion to invoke 
cloture.
  The legislative 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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on Executive 
     Calendar No. 238, the nomination of Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, 
     to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation.
         Bill Frist, Thad Cochran, Norm Coleman, Charles Grassley, 
           Wayne Allard, Jim Bunning, Conrad Burns, Mitch 
           McConnell, John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander, Larry Craig, 
           Richard G. Lugar, Peter

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           Fitzgerald, George Allen, Don Nickles, John Ensign, 
           James Inhofe.

  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. 238, the nomination of Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, 
to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, shall be brought a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Edwards), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Lieberman) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) would vote ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 39, as follows:
  The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 455 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Kyl
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--39

     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Edwards
     Graham (FL)
     Kerry
     Lieberman
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 
39. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote on this vote 
and the previous vote.
  Mr. REID. I move to lay both motions on the table.
  The motions to lay on the table were agreed to.

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