[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 82 (Monday, June 20, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6795-S6802]
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.
  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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on Executive 
     Calendar No. 103:
         William Frist, Richard Lugar, Richard Burr, Pat Roberts, 
           Mitch McConnell, Jeff Sessions, Wayne Allard, Jon Kyl, 
           Jim DeMint, David Vitter, Richard Shelby, Lindsey 
           Graham, John Ensign, Pete Domenici, Robert Bennett, Mel 
           Martinez, George Allen.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 103, the nomination of John Robert Bolton, to be 
the Representative of the United States of America to the United 
Nations, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory 
under the rule. The clerk will call the roll.

[[Page S6802]]

  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McConnell. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Coleman), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Coleman) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Feingold), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl), 
and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cornyn). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burr
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Vitter
     Warner

                                NAYS--38

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Obama
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Voinovich
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Burns
     Coleman
     Feingold
     Johnson
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Levin
     Thune
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 
38. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.

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