[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 104 (Monday, July 13, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S7402]
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                             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 state.
  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 nomination of 
     Robert M. Groves, of Michigan, to be Director of the Census.
         Harry Reid, John D. Rockefeller, IV, Christopher J. Dodd, 
           Arlen Specter, Richard J. Durbin, Mark Begich, Mark 
           Udall, Michael F. Bennet, Jeff Bingaman, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Frank R. Lautenberg, Blanche L. Lincoln, 
           Tom Udall, Bill Nelson, Byron L. Dorgan, Claire 
           McCaskill, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

  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 Robert M. Groves, of Michigan, to be Director of the 
Census, 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), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from 
West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. 
Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), 
the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Lugar), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 15, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Ex.]

                                YEAS--76

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Burris
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corker
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Johanns
     Johnson
     Kaufman
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Martinez
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Snowe
     Specter
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--15

     Barrasso
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Chambliss
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Isakson
     Risch
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bennett
     Byrd
     DeMint
     Hutchison
     Kennedy
     Lugar
     Rockefeller
     Stabenow
     Voinovich
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 
15. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back. The 
question is on agreeing to the confirmation of the nominee.
  The nomination was confirmed.
  Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made 
and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of 
the Senate's action.
  (At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to 
be printed in the Record.)
 Ms. STABENOW. Madam President, I was necessarily absent for 
tonight's vote on the nomination of Robert M. Groves, of Michigan, to 
be Director of the Bureau of the Census at the Department of Commerce. 
I was in Michigan attending an event with the Secretary of Agriculture. 
Had I been present for the vote on this nomination, I would have voted 
in favor of both the motion to invoke cloture and on confirmation of 
the nomination.

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