[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 178 (Friday, November 16, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S14592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          FARM, NUTRITION, AND BIOENERGY ACT OF 2007--Resumed


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will report.
  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 Harkin amendment 
     No. 3500 (Substitute) to H.R. 2419, the farm bill.
         Tom Harkin, Jon Tester, Daniel K. Inouye, Dick Durbin, 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Patty Murray, Bernard Sanders, Kent 
           Conrad, Ben Cardin, Debbie Stabenow, Ben Nelson, Byron 
           L. Dorgan, Max Baucus, Ken Salazar, Claire McCaskill, 
           Bob Casey, Jr., Sherrod Brown.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes equally divided on the 
cloture motion.
  Who seeks time?
  The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, there will be no more rollcall votes today. 
I look forward to a productive Thanksgiving. I hope everyone enjoys 
themselves. When we come back in December, we have 3 weeks to do a lot 
of work. I had a good exchange with the Republican leader today and 
hope we can return more quickly than we have in the last few days.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes equally divided on the 
motion to invoke cloture. Who seeks time?
  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I yield back our time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa yields back time.
  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, I yield back our time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia yields back time.
  The mandatory quorum call is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on 
amendment No. 3500, offered by the Senator from Iowa, Mr. Harkin, to 
H.R. 2419, the farm bill, should be brought to a close? The yeas and 
nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Lott), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 412 Leg.]

                                YEAS--55

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Clinton
     Coleman
     Conrad
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Grassley
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--42

     Alexander
     Allard
     Barrasso
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Graham
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kyl
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Cornyn
     Lott
     McCain
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the 
nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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