[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 190 (Monday, December 12, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8484-S8485]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  Under the previous order, pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The assistant 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 the debate on the nomination 
     of Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of El Salvador.
         Harry Reid, John F. Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Patrick J. 
           Leahy, Patty Murray, Richard J. Durbin, Kent Conrad, 
           John D. Rockefeller IV, Jeff Bingaman, Tim Johnson, 
           Robert Menendez, Daniel K. Inouye, Max Baucus, Charles 
           E. Schumer, Mark Udall, Michael F. Bennet, 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 
nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to the Republic of El Salvador 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 Montana (Mr. Baucus), 
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. 
Mikulski), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) 
would have voted: nay.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

     Akaka
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse

                                NAYS--37

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Corker
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Enzi
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kyl
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Paul
     Portman
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Baucus
     Blunt
     Burr
     Coburn
     Cornyn
     Graham
     Heller
     Kirk
     Lee
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Thune
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
37. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the President will 
be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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