[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 8 (Monday, January 30, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S308]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 4:30 
having arrived, the Senate will proceed to a vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture on Executive Calendar No. 490.
  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 the nomination 
     of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of New Jersey to be an Associate 
     Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
         Bill Frist, Elizabeth Dole, Michael B. Enzi, Jim DeMint, 
           Wayne Allard, Kit Bond, John Ensign, Arlen Specter, 
           Rick Santorum, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Pete Domenici, 
           Judd Gregg, Lisa Murkowski, Norm Coleman, George Allen, 
           Mitch McConnell.

  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. 490, the nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of 
New Jersey, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory 
under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Hagel).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) is 
necessarily absent.
  I further announce that if present and voting, the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Harkin) would vote ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 25, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.]

                                YEAS--72

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Enzi
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--25

     Bayh
     Biden
     Boxer
     Clinton
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Obama
     Reed
     Reid
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Ensign
     Hagel
     Harkin
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, yeas are 72, the nays are 25. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina is recognized.
  Mr. DeMINT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 15 
minutes.
  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I will 
not object, would my friend extend his unanimous consent request to 
include the following Democratic Members: Senator Boxer for 20 minutes, 
Senator Baucus for 20 minutes, Senator Dodd for 20 minutes, and Senator 
Biden for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DeMINT. Mr. President, I do add that to the request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from South Carolina is recognized.