[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 38 (Monday, March 14, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S1590]
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        SBIR/STTR REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2011--MOTION TO PROCEED

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order and pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will state.
  The bill 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. 17, S. 493, a bill to reauthorize and 
     improve the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes.
         Harry Reid, Mary L. Landrieu, Benjamin L. Cardin, Charles 
           E. Schumer, Daniel K. Inouye, Joseph I. Lieberman, 
           Bernard Sanders, Debbie Stabenow, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom 
           Harkin, Kay R. Hagan, Michael F. Bennet, Al Franken, 
           Herb Kohl, Sheldon Whitehouse, Thomas R. Carper, 
           Richard J. 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. 493, a bill to reauthorize and improve the SBIR 
and STTR programs, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 40 Leg.]

                                YEAS--84

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Corker
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Hatch
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--12

     Ayotte
     Cornyn
     DeMint
     Ensign
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Chambliss
     Crapo
     Harkin
     Risch
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 
12.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.

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