[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 107 (Thursday, July 10, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4377-S4378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BIPARTISAN SPORTSMEN'S ACT OF 2014

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of S. 2363, which the clerk will report by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2363) to protect and enhance opportunities for 
     recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other 
     purposes.

  Pending:

       Reid (for Udall (CO)/Risch) amendment No. 3469, to clarify 
     a provision relating to the nonfederal share of the cost of 
     acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing a public 
     target range.
       Reid amendment No. 3490 (to amendment No. 3469), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Reid motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Energy 
     and Natural Resources, with instructions, Reid amendment No. 
     3491, to change the enactment date.
       Reid amendment No. 3492 (to (the instructions) amendment 
     No. 3491), of a perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 3493 (to amendment No. 3492), of a 
     perfecting nature.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 S. 2363, a bill to 
     protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, 
     fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes.
         Harry Reid, Kay R. Hagan, Patrick J. Leahy, Tim Kaine, 
           Angus S. King, Jr., Thomas R. Carper, Bill Nelson, Jon 
           Tester, Patty Murray, Claire McCaskill, Mark Begich, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Tom Harkin, Tom Udall, Joe Donnelly.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate on S. 
2363, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational 
hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 41, nays 56, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Leg.]

                                YEAS--41

     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Carper

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     Casey
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     Merkley
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--56

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     Markey
     McCain
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Warren
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Cardin
     Mikulski
     Schatz
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 41, the nays are 56. 
Three-fifths of the Senators present and voting have not voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, for those students who are out there 
trying to learn what goes on in the Senate and for those professors who 
teach what goes on in the Senate, this is not totally new, but this is 
in the category of being fairly new.
  This is an example of the Republicans filibustering not one of our 
bills but their own bill. How about that? There are 26 Republican 
cosponsors, and they filibustered their own bill.
  We have asked on a number of occasions for what we have done around 
this body for decades: You come up with a list of amendments, you come 
up with a list of amendments, and we will work through those 
amendments.
  Do you know why we don't do that anymore? The Republicans cannot 
agree among themselves what they want as amendments. They cannot come 
up with a list. They are so tangled up with the tea party here, the tea 
party there, people running for President, they cannot decide on a list 
of amendments to bring before the body. So what do they do? They block 
everything.
  I was hoping that with the majority of the Republicans sponsoring a 
bill, we could at least move forward on it. People who sponsored this 
bill voted against it. They are bringing to this body a new definition 
of what it means to sponsor legislation. I mean, who, of the people who 
have come before us in this body, ever voted to filibuster their own 
bill? That is what they have done. But it is nothing new.
  I see on the floor the senior Senator from New Hampshire. She worked 
for more than a year with some Republican colleagues to do something 
that is so badly needed in this country now; that is, energy 
efficiency. Energy is wasted every day in this country. She and some 
Republican colleagues worked on a measure to reduce the waste of 
energy. It is called the energy efficiency bill. Guess what. The 
Republicans voted to kill their own bill.
  I was originally told by Republicans: Go ahead and let's just vote on 
it as it is.
  I thought that was great because they had been working on it in 
committee. They had a significant number of amendments that had been 
dealt with before on the floor, and they put them in the bill and they 
brought it to the floor. But then I am told--and I have said this 
before, and I will say it again because we need to repeat something 
that needs repeating--give us a vote on the Keystone Pipeline. All we 
want is a sense of the Senate.
  I didn't like that because we already had an agreement. I came back 
and said: OK, do it.
  Then we came back after a recess of a few days, and they said: Well, 
we have a new deal now.
  What is that?
  We want an up-or-down vote on Keystone.
  We cannot do that. We already have an agreement to get this moving.
  I go back and mostly talk to myself, quite frankly, because it is not 
very logical what I am being asked to do, but I talk to myself for a 
while, and I come back and say: OK, on Keystone, an up-or-down vote 
right here on the Senate floor.
  They couldn't take yes for an answer even on that.
  And then--the audacity--Republican Senators have come to the floor 
since then and said: They won't give us a vote on Keystone.
  They did it on Shaheen-Portman. We had an economic development 
revitalization act. One of the Republican cosponsors there voted to 
block that. Small business innovation--three Republican cosponsors 
voted to block that.
  This is a new phenomenon for the professors and the students to 
figure out. You sponsor a bill and then you vote to kill it before you 
even bring it to the floor. So I guess sponsorship doesn't mean what it 
used to mean anymore. It means ``I am sponsoring this bill, but watch 
out because I may vote against myself.''
  So we are going to continue to work on this side of the aisle to try 
to get work done, but observers need to look no further than Republican 
sponsors voting against their own bills to see where the problem lies.

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