[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 29 (Thursday, February 28, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S990-S991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       TO PROVIDE FOR A SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT--MOTION TO PROCEED

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 16, which the clerk 
will state.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 19, a bill to provide for 
     a sequester replacement.

  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:

[[Page S991]]

                             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. 19, S. 16, an Inhofe/Toomey bill to 
     cancel budgetary resources for fiscal year 2013.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Patrick J. Toomey, James M. 
           Inhofe, Johnny Isakson, Richard Burr, John Thune, Tom 
           Coburn, Jeff Sessions, Roger F. Wicker, Mike Johanns, 
           Mike Crapo, Pat Roberts, Ron Johnson, James E. Risch, 
           Jerry Moran, John Barrasso.

  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 on S. 16, a bill to provide for a sequester 
replacement, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 38, nays 62, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 26 Leg.]

                                YEAS--38

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Warner
     Wicker

                                NAYS--62

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cowan
     Cruz
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lee
     Levin
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the ayes are 38, the nays are 
62. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Under the previous order, the motion to proceed to S. 16 is 
withdrawn.

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