[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 182 (Friday, December 20, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S9081]
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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.

                             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 
     John Andrew Koskinen, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
       Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Barbara Boxer, Mark Begich, Richard 
     Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tom Udall, Debbie Stabenow, 
     Sheldon Whitehouse, Bernard Sanders, Christopher A. Coons, 
     Mazie K. Hirono, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Jon Tester, Brian 
     Schatz, Martin Heinrich, Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, 
     Heidi Heitkamp.

  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 
nomination of John Andrew Koskinen, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue 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 PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is 
necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Nevada (Mr. Reid) would vote ``aye.''
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Flake), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Johanns).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee- (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 287 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--39

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Alexander
     Flake
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Reid
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 56, the nays are 39.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Illinois.
  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, that 10-minute rollcall took 18 minutes. 
If people stay on the floor we can move these a lot quicker.

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