[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 149 (Tuesday, December 9, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6404]
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 a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
the Lodge nomination.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent all time be yielded 
back.
  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 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 the nomination of 
     Virginia Tyler Lodge, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the 
     Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Patty Murray, Tom Udall, 
           Brian Schatz, Charles E. Schumer, Barbara Boxer, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff Merkley, 
           Al Franken, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Richard J. Durbin, Christopher 
           Murphy, Bernard Sanders.

  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 Virginia Tyler Lodge, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 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 Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the 
Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall), and the Senator from New York (Mr. 
Schumer) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cruz).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 318 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coats
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--32

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Cruz
     Landrieu
     Rockefeller
     Schumer
     Udall (CO)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 
32.
  The motion is agreed to.

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