[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 5, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S1304]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to the 
cloture vote.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. INHOFE. I yield back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Time is yielded back.
  Who yields time in support of the nomination?
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, parliamentary inquiry. I understand the 
Republican side yielded back their time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct. The time in opposition 
is yielded back.
  Mr. MENENDEZ. I yield back our time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time having been yielded, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will state.
  The assistant 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 nomination of 
     Rose Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary 
     of State for Arms Control and International Security.
         Harry Reid, Robert Menendez, Benjamin L. Cardin, Ron 
           Wyden, Christopher A. Coons, Patrick J. Leahy, Martin 
           Heinrich, Jack Reed, Tom Harkin, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Patty Murray, Dianne Feinstein, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Barbara Boxer, Carl Levin, Jeff Merkley, Amy Klobuchar.

  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 Rose Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 45, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 57 Ex.]

                                YEAS--55

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

                                NAYS--45

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55 and the nays are 
45. The motion to invoke cloture is agreed to.

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