Congressional Record, Volume 156 Issue 95 (Wednesday, June 23, 2010)

[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 23, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5305-S5306]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

AMERICAN JOBS AND CLOSING TAX LOOPHOLES ACT OF 2010

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the pending business.
The bill clerk read as follows:

Motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate
amendment with an amendment to H.R. 4213, an act to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to extend certain expiring
provisions, and for other purposes.

Pending:

Baucus motion to concur in the amendment of the House to
the amendment of the Senate to the bill, with Baucus
amendment No. 4369 (to the amendment of the House to the
amendment of the Senate to the bill), in the nature of a
substitute.
Coburn amendment No. 4331 (to amendment No. 4369), to pay
for the cost of this act by reducing wasteful, inefficient,
excessive, and duplicative government spending.
Casey/Brown (OH) amendment No. 4371 (to amendment No.
4369), to provide for the extension of premium assistance for
COBRA benefits.
LeMieux amendment No. 4300 (to amendment No. 4369), to
establish an expedited procedure for consideration of a bill
returning spending levels to 2007 levels.
DeMint motion to refer the House message to accompany H.R.
4213, to the Committee on Finance with instructions.

Motion To Refer

Mr. REID. Is the pending matter the DeMint motion?
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warner). It is the motion to refer.
Mr. REID. I move to table that motion and ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
There appears to be a sufficient second.
The question is on agreeing to the motion to table.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd)
and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily
absent.
Mr. KYL. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Kansas (Mr. Roberts).
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?

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The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 40, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 197 Leg.]

YEAS--57

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

NAYS--40

Alexander
Barrasso
Bennett
Bond
Brown (MA)
Brownback
Bunning
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Cochran
Collins
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
DeMint
Ensign
Enzi
Graham
Grassley
Gregg
Hatch
Hutchison
Inhofe
Isakson
Johanns
Kyl
LeMieux
Lugar
McCain
McConnell
Murkowski
Nelson (NE)
Risch
Sessions
Shelby
Snowe
Thune
Vitter
Wicker

NOT VOTING--3

Byrd
Roberts
Rockefeller
The motion was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Mr. REID. Mr. President, for the benefit of all Members, we are
trying to work through having an amendment Senator Baucus will offer
when we dispose of the present amendment.
I have had one Senator come to me and ask: Once we get on the next
Baucus amendment, what are we going to do? I will be happy to confer
with the Republican leader and see if there is a way of moving forward.
We have been on this matter for a long time--not on a contiguous basis,
but this is the beginning of the end of the eighth week on this piece
of legislation. But we have no desire at this time to have an outline
of how we are going to get where we are going to.
I will be happy to visit with the Republican leader because one of
his Senators asked me what we were going to do once we get on the
Baucus amendment. The plan would be to complete tabling the Baucus
amendment, and then the plan would be to recess subject to the call of
the Chair. At that time, Senator Baucus would lay down the amendment.
It is not ready. That is why we are not doing it now. And then we could
decide at that time, or maybe even in the morning, how we are going to
proceed. I think that gives everyone a general idea. There will be no
more votes tonight after we have this one vote.
Mr. President, I move to table the Baucus motion to concur in the
House amendment to the Senate amendment with amendment No. 4369, and I
ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a
sufficient second.
The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the
roll.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr.
Byrd), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan), and the Senator from
West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily absent.
Mr. KYL. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Kansas (Mr. Roberts).
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 40, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 198 Leg.]

YEAS--56

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

NAYS--40

Alexander
Barrasso
Bennett
Bond
Brown (MA)
Brownback
Bunning
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Cochran
Collins
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
DeMint
Ensign
Enzi
Graham
Grassley
Gregg
Hatch
Hutchison
Inhofe
Isakson
Johanns
Kyl
LeMieux
Lugar
McCain
McConnell
Murkowski
Risch
Sessions
Shelby
Snowe
Thune
Vitter
Voinovich
Wicker

NOT VOTING--4

Byrd
Dorgan
Roberts
Rockefeller
The motion to table was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.

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