[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 24, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6962-S6965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             Cloture Motion

  Under the previous order, pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undesigned 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 nomination of 
     Harold Hongju Koh, of Connecticut, to be Legal Adviser of the 
     Department of State.

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         Harry Reid, Mark L. Pryor, Sheldon Whitehouse, Daniel K. 
           Inouye, Russell D. Feingold, Christopher J. Dodd, 
           Roland W. Burris, Richard Durbin, Patty Murray, Jon 
           Tester, Mark Udall, Amy Klobuchar, Jack Reed, Max 
           Baucus, Jeff Merkley, Blanche L. Lincoln, Maria 
           Cantwell, Byron L. Dorgan.

  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 Harold Koh, of Connecticut, to be Legal Adviser of the 
State Department 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 called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) 
and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 31, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burris
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Conrad
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Gregg
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kaufman
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--31

     Barrasso
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Kyl
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Risch
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Byrd
     Cochran
     Kennedy
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 
31. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  (Disturbance in the Visitors' Galleries.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. No applause from the gallery is allowed.
  The Senator from Georgia.
  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business and that I be followed by my colleague, Senator 
Isakson.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Hearing no objection, it 
is so ordered.