[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 166 (Friday, December 21, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8340-S8341]
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                             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 the substitute amendment No. 3395 to H.R. 1, an act 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense and other 
departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2011.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Benjamin L. Cardin, Mark 
           Begich, Joe Manchin III, Tom Harkin, Jeff Bingaman, 
           Mary Landrieu, Christopher A. Coons, Amy Klobuchar, 
           Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, Jack Reed, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Tom Udall, Bernard Sanders, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call will be waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on 
substitute amendment No. 3395, offered by the Senator from Nevada, Mr. 
Reid, to H.R. 1, an act making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense and other departments and agencies of the government for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes, shall be 
brought to a close?
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this vote and 
the next vote be 10 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the 
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 91, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Leg.]

                                YEAS--91

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

                                NAYS--1

       
     Kyl
       

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Brown (MA)
     Burr
     Coburn
     DeMint
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     Moran
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 91, and the nays 
are

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1. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have a lot more work to do. This will be 
the last vote of the day, the one coming up.

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