[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 129 (Friday, September 21, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6603-S6604]
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    MAKING CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012--Continued


                             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 H.J. Res. 117, a 
     joint resolution making continuing appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2013, and for other purposes.
         Harry Reid, Daniel K. Inouye, Patty Murray, Bernard 
           Sanders, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, Max Baucus, Mark Pryor, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Jon Tester, Michael F. Bennet, 
           Kay R. Hagan, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, 
           Ron Wyden, Barbara Boxer.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes equally divided prior 
to a vote on the motion.
  The Senator from Hawaii.
  Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, this CR funds the government for the next 
6 months at a level agreed to by the Budget Control Act. It contains a 
minimum of anomalies and allows adequate funding for disaster relief. 
This is an inefficient way to fund our Federal Government, but it is 
better than shutting it down next week.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote.
  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 H.J. 
Res. 117, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for 
fiscal year 2013, and for

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other purposes shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) 
would have voted: ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Leg.]

                                YEAS--62

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cochran
     Conrad
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--30

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCain
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Thune
     Toomey

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Boozman
     Boxer
     Burr
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     Murray
     Vitter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 
30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Under the previous order, the pending amendments are withdrawn.
  The clerk will read the joint resolution for the third time.
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 117) was read the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on passage of the joint 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller) 
would have voted: ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown of Ohio). Are there any other 
Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Leg.]

                                YEAS--62

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cochran
     Conrad
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--30

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCain
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Thune
     Toomey

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Boozman
     Boxer
     Burr
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     Murray
     Vitter
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 117) was passed.


                            Vote Explanation

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I was unable to attend the roll 
call votes that occurred at midnight, September 22. Had I been present, 
I would have voted against S. 3576, related to foreign aid and voted in 
favor of S.J. Res. 41, the Iran Resolution. I would have also voted to 
support passage of H.J. Res. 117, the Continuing Appropriations 
resolution and would have voted against the motion to invoke cloture on 
the motion to proceed to S. 3525, the Sportsmen's Act.

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