[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 109 (Thursday, July 22, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S6190]
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MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 
                                30, 2010

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to the House message to accompany H.R. 4899, which the clerk 
will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Resolved that the House agree to the amendment of the 
     Senate to the title of the bill (H.R. 4899) entitled ``An Act 
     making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2010, and for other purposes,'' and be it 
     further resolved that the House agree to the amendment of the 
     Senate to the text of the aforesaid bill with an amendment.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, 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 
     concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 
     4899, an act making supplemental appropriations for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 2010.
         Daniel K. Inouye, Tom Harkin, Christopher J. Dodd, 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Max Baucus, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Charles E. Schumer, Al Franken, Patty Murray, Benjamin 
           L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Roland W. Burris, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Mark Begich, Amy Klobuchar, Byron L. Dorgan, 
           Mark Udall.

  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 concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 
4899, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010, 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 Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Bond).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
DeMint) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 46, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Leg.]

                                YEAS--46

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Brown (OH)
     Burris
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey
     Conrad
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Goodwin
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kaufman
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (NM)
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Bayh
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bennett
     Brown (MA)
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burr
     Carper
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     LeMieux
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Pryor
     Risch
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Specter
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Webb
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Bond
     DeMint
     Leahy
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 
51. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Under the previous order, the motion to concur is withdrawn.
  The motion to disagree to the House amendment to the Senate amendment 
to H.R. 4899 is considered made; the motion to disagree is agreed to; 
and the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the 
table.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today, tomorrow and the next day 
marines and soldiers will patrol the streets of places like Marja and 
Garmsir and assist Afghan policemen in the areas around Kandahar.
  They are well trained, they are intent on accomplishing the mission 
they have been given, and they are supported by loving families here at 
home.
  For their sacrifice, they ask little. They ask that they be well led, 
prepared, and to have clear-cut missions and guidance. They ask that 
their families be cared for.
  We have become so used to their sacrifice in the days, months, and 
years since September 11, 2001, that it may become easy to take the 
extraordinary service rendered by this All-Volunteer Force for granted.
  So easy, it seems, that the funding request submitted by Secretary 
Gates in February to fund combat operations has languished here in the 
Congress for months.
  As a Senate, we should not take this sacrifice for granted.
  Secretary Gates spoke to my Republican colleagues and me about the 
need to pass the defense supplemental so the training and pay of our 
military would not be at risk.
  He has also written to the majority leader and asked that we finish 
this supplemental before the August recess so that he will not be 
forced to furlough thousands of civilian employees at the Department of 
Defense.
  It has taken until this late date to now vote once again on funding 
for our All-Volunteer Force. With each passing day we approach the end 
of the fiscal year and Secretary Gates loses the ability to shift 
funding from other activities in the Defense Department to the training 
of our forces scheduled to deploy.
  I am afraid we are losing sight of the purpose of these war 
supplemental bills. These bills are not for forward-funding domestic 
programs. They are not for funding projects that won't pass elsewhere.
  It would be irresponsible to give the House any further reason to 
shirk the responsibility of getting this funding to our fighting 
forces.
  We need to pass this supplemental tonight, send it back to the House 
and reject any delaying tactic or additional matters that can wait for 
future consideration in this session.
  Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, I voted to end debate on the House 
amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill because that 
amendment addresses important domestic priorities for Wisconsin and 
this country without adding a penny to the deficit. The amendment 
provides $10 billion to help school districts around the country facing 
funding shortfalls due to the ongoing recession, all of it paid for. It 
also provides almost $5 billion in fully offset funding to help ensure 
that the millions of low income students who receive Pell grants do not 
see reductions in their awards.
  The House amendment also includes a provision to give public safety 
employees, like firefighters and police officers, collective bargaining 
rights. While Wisconsin and other States already protect public safety 
employees' collective bargaining rights, there are still several States 
that do not. Police officers, firefighters, and other public safety 
officers are on the front lines of protecting our communities and we 
should ensure that these hard working professionals have the ability to 
bargain for better wages and working conditions.
  However, I continue to oppose funding for a massive, open-ended war 
in Afghanistan. This war funding will add tens of billions to our 
deficit without contributing to our national security.

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