[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 134 (Monday, September 12, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5504-S5505]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 APPROVING THE RENEWAL OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS CONTAINED IN THE BURMESE 
    FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2003--MOTION TO PROCEED--Continued


                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion to invoke 
cloture.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       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 the debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 154, H.J. Res. 66,

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     a joint resolution approving the renewal of import 
     restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy 
     Act of 2003.

  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 H.J. Res. 66, an act approving the renewal of 
import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act 
of 2003 shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory 
under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Casey), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from 
West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the 
Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  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 53, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Coats
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heller
     Inouye
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Snowe
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse

                                NAYS--33

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kyl
     Lee
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Casey
     DeMint
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     Landrieu
     Murkowski
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Stabenow
     Vitter
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 
33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Under the previous order, a motion to reconsider is entered.

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