[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 175 (Wednesday, December 11, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S8799]
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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 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 nomination of 
     Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior 
     Foreign Service, Class of Career Ambassador, to be an 
     Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs).
         Harry Reid, Richard J. Durbin, Christopher Murphy, Robert 
           Menendez, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Martin Heinrich, Amy Klobuchar, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Dianne Feinstein, Tom Udall, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, 
           Bernard Sanders, Barbara Boxer, Brian Schatz, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Thomas R. Carper, Michael F. Bennet.

  Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory 
quorum be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, under the previous order the mandatory quorum call 
is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, a Career Member of the 
Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Ambassador, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs), shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), 
the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necesarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 273 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--36

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Alexander
     Boxer
     Coburn
     Crapo
     Graham
     Hatch
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     McCaskill
     Schatz
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 54, the nays are 36. 
The motion is agreed to.

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