[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 30, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S7722]
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  JOBS, ENERGY, FAMILIES, AND DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 2008--MOTION TO 
                                PROCEED


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the clerk will report 
the motion to invoke cloture.
  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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 898, S. 3335, the Jobs, Energy, 
     Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008.
         Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Bernard Sanders, Christopher J. 
           Dodd, Maria Cantwell, Benjamin L. Cardin, Daniel K. 
           Inouye, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Patty Murray, Ron 
           Wyden, Debbie Stabenow, Patrick J. Leahy, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Richard Durbin, Robert Menendez, Sherrod 
           Brown, Carl Levin.

  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 
motion to proceed to S. 3335, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes, 
shall be brought to a close.
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Obama), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Rockefeller) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--43

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Kennedy
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Obama
     Rockefeller
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the energy 
renewables package.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.

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