[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 169 (Monday, November 7, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S7151]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     3% WITHHOLDING REPEAL AND JOB CREATION ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 674, which the 
clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 674) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on 
     certain payments made to vendors by government entities, to 
     modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for 
     purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-
     related programs, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 30 
minutes of debate equally divided and controlled between the Senator 
from Montana and the Senator from Utah.
  Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum, 
and I ask unanimous consent that the time under the quorum call be 
equally charged.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
order for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin.) Without objection, it is so 
ordered.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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. 212, H.R. 674, an act to amend the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 
     percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by 
     government entities, to modify the calculation of modified 
     adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility 
     for certain health care related programs, and for other 
     purposes.
         Harry Reid, Christopher A. Coons, Joe Manchin III, Kay R. 
           Hagan, Dianne Feinstein, Benjamin L. Cardin, Al 
           Franken, Mark Begich, Mark R. Warner, Jeff Bingaman, 
           Tom Udall, Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Barbara A. 
           Mikulski, Kent Conrad, Michael F. Bennet, Patty Murray.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate on the 
motion to proceed to H.R. 674, an act to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on 
certain payments made to vendors by government entities, to modify the 
calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of 
determining eligibility for certain health care-related programs, and 
for other purposes, 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 Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Hatch), and the Senator from Utah ( Mr. Lee), the 
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. DeMint).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 94, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Leg.]

                                YEAS--94

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

                                NAYS--1

       
     Rockefeller
       

                             NOT VOTING--5

     DeMint
     Hatch
     Kirk
     Lee
     Pryor
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 94, the nays are 1. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
 Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, due to a prior family obligation, I 
was unavoidably absent for tonight's vote. I ask the Record show that 
had I been present for vote No. 198, I would have voted yea on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R.674.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The remarks of Mr. Alexander pertaining to the introduction of S. 
1815 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced 
Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I thank the Chair, and I yield the 
floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the quorum 
be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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