[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 44 (Friday, April 7, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S3366]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NOMINATION OF PETER CYRIL WYCHE FLORY TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE
Mr. WARNER. I urge we proceed immediately to the second vote, a
cloture vote on Peter Flory.
cloture motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 Peter Cyril Wyche Flory to be an Assistant Secretary of
Defense.
Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander, Mike Crapo, Jim Bunning,
Richard Burr, Wayne Allard, Johnny Isakson, Richard
Shelby, Craig Thomas, Ted Stevens, David Vitter, James
Inhofe, Chuck Hagel, Norm Coleman, Mike DeWine, Robert
F. Bennett, John Thune.
Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, this will be the last recorded vote of the
day. There could be a voice vote subsequently, but this will be the
last recorded vote for the record.
Mr. LEVIN. Whether cloture is invoked or not, we have agreed this
will be the last vote.
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 the
nomination of Peter Cyril Wyche Flory, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Defense, be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Kansas (Mr.
Roberts), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden),
the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Washington
(Mrs. Murrary), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller)
are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Thune). Are there any other Senators in
the Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 41, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 92 Ex.]
YEAS--52
Alexander
Allard
Allen
Bennett
Bond
Bunning
Burns
Burr
Chafee
Chambliss
Coburn
Cochran
Coleman
Collins
Cornyn
Craig
Crapo
DeMint
DeWine
Dole
Domenici
Ensign
Enzi
Frist
Graham
Grassley
Gregg
Hagel
Hatch
Hutchison
Inhofe
Isakson
Kyl
Lott
Lugar
Martinez
McCain
McConnell
Murkowski
Santorum
Sessions
Shelby
Smith
Snowe
Specter
Sununu
Talent
Thomas
Thune
Vitter
Voinovich
Warner
NAYS--41
Akaka
Baucus
Bayh
Bingaman
Byrd
Cantwell
Carper
Clinton
Conrad
Dayton
Dodd
Dorgan
Durbin
Feingold
Feinstein
Harkin
Inouye
Jeffords
Johnson
Kennedy
Kerry
Kohl
Landrieu
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Lieberman
Lincoln
Menendez
Mikulski
Nelson (FL)
Nelson (NE)
Obama
Pryor
Reed
Reid
Salazar
Sarbanes
Schumer
Stabenow
Wyden
NOT VOTING--7
Biden
Boxer
Brownback
Murray
Roberts
Rockefeller
Stevens
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays 41.
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
Mr. LEVIN. I move to reconsider the vote.
Mr. WARNER. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
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