[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 153 (Wednesday, October 21, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10613-S10614]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FAIRNESS ACT OF 2009--MOTION TO PROCEED


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.

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  The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 178, S. 1776, the Medicare Physician 
     Fairness Act of 2009.
         Harry Reid, Debbie Stabenow, Roland W. Burris, Patty 
           Murray, Mark Udall, Mark Begich, Frank R. Lautenberg, 
           Amy Klobuchar, Jack Reed, Carl Levin, Jeff Bingaman, 
           Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, Barbara Boxer, 
           Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Charles E. Schumer, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Richard Durbin.

  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. 1776, the Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 
2009, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 53, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 325 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burris
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Dodd
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kaufman
     Kerry
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Whitehouse

                                NAYS--53

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burr
     Byrd
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Dorgan
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Kohl
     Kyl
     LeMieux
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Risch
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Tester
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Webb
     Wicker
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 
53. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The Senator from Alabama is recognized.

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