[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 78 (Thursday, May 22, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S3273]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 WATER RESOURCES REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2014--CONFERENCE REPORT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the conference report to accompany H.R. 3080, which 
the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     3080), to provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors 
     of the United States, to provide for the conservation and 
     development of water and related resources, and for other 
     purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have 
     agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective 
     Houses as follows: That the House recede from its 
     disagreement to the amendment of the Senate and agree to the 
     same with an amendment and the Senate agree to the same, 
     signed by a majority of the conferees on the part of both 
     Houses.

  (The conference report is printed in the House proceedings in the 
Record of May 15, 2014.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.
  Mrs. BOXER. Colleagues, I am going to take 25 seconds. This is a 
great day for the Senate, for every single Member in this body, and our 
States, for jobs, for business, for ecosystem restoration, for our 
oceans. It is a great bill. I hope we will have a great vote on this 
bill.
  Senator Vitter and I agree. I will yield my remaining time to him.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.
  Mr. VITTER. Madam President, I urge a ``yes'' vote also. This is a 
strong bipartisan bill. There were only four ``no'' votes in the House 
and a strong positive editorial in the Wall Street Journal. Vote for 
infrastructure and jobs.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is 
on agreeing to the conference report to accompany H.R. 3080.
  Mr. CORKER. Madam President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Coats).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Boozman) would have voted ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Warren). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Leg.]

                                YEAS--91

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--7

     Burr
     Coburn
     Flake
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     Roberts

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Boozman
     Coats
       
  The conference report was agreed to.

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