[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 17, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S3697]
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CLOTURE MOTION
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2
minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the Kadzik motion.
Mr. NELSON. I yield back time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the time has been yielded
back.
Under the previous order, the Chair lays before the Senate the
pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
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
Peter Joseph Kadzik, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney
General.
Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Christopher A. Coons,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher Murphy, Al Franken, Jon
Tester, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff Merkley, Richard J.
Durbin, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Benjamin L. Cardin, Bill
Nelson, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren, Tom Harkin,
Mazie K. Hirono.
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 Peter Joseph Kadzik, of New York, to be an Assistant
Attorney General 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 Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey)
is necessarily absent.
Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi
(Mr. Cochran).
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 198 Ex.]
YEAS--54
Baldwin
Begich
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Boxer
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Coons
Donnelly
Durbin
Feinstein
Franken
Gillibrand
Hagan
Harkin
Heinrich
Heitkamp
Hirono
Johnson (SD)
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Landrieu
Leahy
Levin
Manchin
Markey
McCaskill
Menendez
Merkley
Mikulski
Murphy
Murray
Nelson
Pryor
Reed
Reid
Rockefeller
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Stabenow
Tester
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Walsh
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--43
Alexander
Ayotte
Barrasso
Blunt
Boozman
Burr
Chambliss
Coats
Collins
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
Cruz
Enzi
Fischer
Flake
Graham
Grassley
Hatch
Heller
Hoeven
Inhofe
Isakson
Johanns
Johnson (WI)
Kirk
Lee
McCain
McConnell
Moran
Murkowski
Paul
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rubio
Scott
Sessions
Shelby
Thune
Toomey
Vitter
Wicker
NOT VOTING--3
Casey
Coburn
Cochran
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 54, the nays are 43.
The motion is agreed to.
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