[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 110 (Tuesday, July 15, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S4472]
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 prior to the vote to invoke cloture on the LaFleur 
nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. REID. I yield back the time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  Pursuant to rule XXII, 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 
     Cheryl A. LaFleur, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the 
     Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
         Harry Reid, Tom Udall, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Cory A. 
           Booker, Jack Reed, Tim Kaine, Patrick J. Leahy, Barbara 
           Boxer, Bill Nelson, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. 
           King, Jr.., Richard Blumenthal, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Christopher Murphy, Patty Murray, Tom Harkin, Tammy 
           Baldwin.

  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 Cheryl A. LaFleur, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the term expiring June 30, 
2019, 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.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) and 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Corker) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 10, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 223 Ex.]

                                YEAS--85

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

                                NAYS--10

     Cardin
     Chambliss
     Cruz
     Gillibrand
     Isakson
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Roberts
     Schumer
     Walsh

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Alexander
     Begich
     Coburn
     Corker
     Schatz
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 85, the nays are 10. 
The motion is agreed to.

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