[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 4, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S3398]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to a vote on 
the motion to invoke cloture on the Burwell nomination.
  The Senator from Oregon.
  Mr. WYDEN. Madam President, Sylvia Mathews Burwell was introduced at 
the Finance Committee by the Senator from Oklahoma Tom Coburn and the 
senior Senator from West Virginia Jay Rockefeller. She has 
extraordinary bipartisan support because she can bring people together. 
After years of divisive and polarizing discussion about the Affordable 
Care Act, Sylvia Mathews Burwell is somebody who will bring Democrats 
and Republicans together to improve the quality and affordability of 
our health care.
  I strongly urge all Senators to vote for Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
  I yield back time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back.
  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 
     Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services.
         Harry Reid, Ron Wyden, Tom Harkin, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Barbara Boxer, Michael F. Bennet, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, Joe 
           Donnelly, Tim Kaine, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sherrod 
           Brown, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom Harkin, Angus S. King, 
           Jr.,

  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 Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Secretary 
of Health and Human Services shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Cochran), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--28

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Coburn
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Booker
     Boozman
     Casey
     Cochran
     Lee
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 67, the nays are 28. 
The motion is agreed to.

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