[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 130 (Thursday, September 11, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5543-S5544]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
RELATING TO CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES INTENDED TO AFFECT ELECTIONS

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will resume consideration of S.J. 
Res. 19.
  Pending:

       Reid amendment No. 3791 (to the committee-reported 
     substitute to the joint resolution), of a perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 3792 (to amendment No. 3791), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 3793 (to the language proposed to be 
     stricken by the committee-reported substitute), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 3794 (to amendment No. 3793), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Reid motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary, with instructions.
       Reid amendment No. 3795, of a perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 3796 (to (the instructions) amendment 
     No. 3795), of a perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 3797 (to amendment No. 3796), of a 
     perfecting nature.


                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER.
  Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion.
  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.J. Res. 19, a 
     joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
     of the United States relating to contributions and 
     expenditures intended to affect elections.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom Udall, Bernard Sanders, 
           Jeff Merkley, Mark Begich, Joe Manchin III, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Tammy Baldwin, Mazie K. Hirono, Sherrod 
           Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Menendez, Robert P. 
           Casey,

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           Jr., Al Franken, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard J. Durbin.

  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 S.J. 
Res. 19, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures 
intended to affect elections, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. 
Gillibrand) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), 
and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 261 Leg.]

                                YEAS--54

     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     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--42

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Coburn
     Cruz
     Gillibrand
     Murkowski
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 54, the nays are 42. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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