[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 180 (Wednesday, December 18, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S8957]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending 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 motion to 
     concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 
     3304, the Department of Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
     year 2014.
         Harry Reid, Carl Levin, Patty Murray, Joe Donnelly, 
           Christopher Murphy, Christopher Coons, Jon Tester, Tom 
           Udall, John Rockefeller, Thomas Carper, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Joe Manchin, Angus S. King, Jr., Mazie 
           Hirono, Martin Heinrich, Bill Nelson, Max Baucus.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to waive the 
quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered. The mandatory quorum has been 
waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 
3304 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.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 29, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Leg.]

                                YEAS--71

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--29

     Barrasso
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McConnell
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 71, the nays are 29. Three-fifths 
of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, 
the motion is agreed to.

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