[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 169 (Saturday, December 18, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10666-S10667]
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SBIR/STTR REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1999--RESUMED
Pending:
Reid motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the
amendment of the Senate to the bill.
Reid motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the
amendment of the Senate to the bill, with Reid amendment No.
4827 (to the House amendment to the Senate amendment), to
change the enactment date.
Reid amendment No. 4828 (to amendment No. 4827), to change
the enactment date.
Reid motion to refer the message of the House on the bill
to the Committee on Armed Services, with instructions, Reid
amendment No. 4829, to provide for a study.
Reid amendment No. 4830 (to (the instructions) amendment
No. 4829), of a perfecting nature.
Reid amendment No. 4831 (to amendment No. 4830), of a
perfecting nature.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2
minutes of debate, equally divided. The Senate will be in order. The
Senator from Connecticut is recognized.
Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise to ask my colleagues on both
sides of the political aisle to support this cloture motion. The fact
is that removing a form of legalized discrimination from our books,
allowing people to serve our military regardless of sexual orientation,
is not a liberal or conservative idea; it is not a Republican or
Democratic idea; it is an American idea consistent with American
values. We have come to a point in our history, I hope, where neither
race nor religion, ethnicity nor gender nor sexual orientation should
deprive Americans of serving our country as the patriots that they are.
This measure would accomplish that result in an orderly way to be
determined by the leaders of our military when they decide that the
military is ready to implement the change, repeal don't ask, don't
tell, without negative effect on military effectiveness, unit cohesion,
and military morale. It is time to right a wrong and put the military
in line with the best of American values.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.
Mr. McCAIN. Today is a very sad day. The Commandant of the U.S.
Marine Corps says: When your life hangs on the line, you don't want
anything distracting. Mistakes and inattention and distractions cost
marines' lives. I don't want to permit that opportunity to happen and I
will tell you why. You go up to Bethesda Naval Hospital, marines are up
there with no legs, none. We have marines in Walter Reed with no limbs.
CLOTURE MOTION
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
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.
2965, the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act.
Joseph I. Lieberman, Barbara Boxer, Ron Wyden, Michael F.
Bennet, Robert Menendez, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Frank R.
Lautenberg, Debbie Stabenow, Mark R. Warner, Tom Udall,
Jeff Merkley, Benjamin L. Cardin, Amy Klobuchar,
Christopher J. Dodd, Tom Carper, Al Franken.
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.
2965, the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr.
Manchin) is necessarily absent.
I further announce that if present and voting, the Senator from West
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) would vote ``nay.''
Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr.
Gregg), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch)
would have voted ``nay,'' and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning)
would have voted ``nay.''
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows:
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[Rollcall Vote No. 279 Leg.]
YEAS--63
Akaka
Baucus
Bayh
Begich
Bennet
Bingaman
Boxer
Brown (MA)
Brown (OH)
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Conrad
Coons
Dodd
Dorgan
Durbin
Feingold
Feinstein
Franken
Gillibrand
Hagan
Harkin
Inouye
Johnson
Kerry
Kirk
Klobuchar
Kohl
Landrieu
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Lieberman
Lincoln
McCaskill
Menendez
Merkley
Mikulski
Murkowski
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--33
Alexander
Barrasso
Bennett
Bond
Brownback
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Cochran
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
DeMint
Ensign
Enzi
Graham
Grassley
Hutchison
Inhofe
Isakson
Johanns
Kyl
LeMieux
Lugar
McCain
McConnell
Risch
Roberts
Sessions
Shelby
Thune
Vitter
Wicker
NOT VOTING--4
Bunning
Gregg
Hatch
Manchin
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are
33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked,
the motion to refer falls.
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