[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 31 (Saturday, February 17, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S2217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AND RAIL SECURITY ACT OF 2007--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that on Tuesday, 
February 27, at 11:30 a.m., the Senate proceed to the consideration of 
S. 184, Calendar No. 26, a bill to provide improved rail and surface 
transportation security.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. McCONNELL. Reserving the right to object, my understanding is the 
Senate would next turn to the so-called 9/11 bill on which the Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee worked. That bill is not 
yet on the calendar and will be filed sometime this week.
  I understand that the pending unanimous consent request is that we 
turn to a different bill, which has been reported by the Commerce 
Committee. At this point, I am compelled to object to this unanimous 
consent request and say to the majority leader, once the 9/11 bill is 
available and Members have had an opportunity to review the 
legislation, I will be happy to revisit this consent request. So I, 
therefore, object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, in response to my friend, he is absolutely 
right. We had every intention of moving to the Homeland Security bill, 
but it wasn't reported out of the committee. The matter I read, 
Calendar No. 26, is part of a big bill. I, frankly, understand why 
there is an objection. We are going to file a cloture motion. 
Hopefully, in the interim period of time, when people have a chance to 
look at this bill, we will get consent from the Republicans to move 
forward.
  The reason I am moving to this bill now is I didn't want to waste 
Tuesday. Time is so precious around here that I wanted to get to this 
or some vehicle as soon as we can. We will do our best in the next few 
days to try to work this out.
  The Republican leader already objected to my request?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move to proceed to S. 184 and send a 
cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The assistant 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 the debate on the motion to proceed to S. 184, a bill to 
provide improved rail and surface transportation security.
         Harry Reid, Russell D. Feingold, Daniel K. Inouye, Jack 
           Reed, Sherrod Brown, Ron Wyden, Ken Salazar, Joe Biden, 
           Mary Landrieu, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Byron L. 
           Dorgan, H.R. Clinton, Bill Nelson, Frank R. Lautenberg, 
           B.A. Mikulski, Patty Murray.

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