[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 153 (Saturday, December 13, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6798-S6799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that any remaining 
votes with these nominations be 10 minutes in duration.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection?
  Mr. CORNYN. I object.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, under the standing order rollcall votes are 
15 minutes. What we usually do is have a grace period, just by 
practice. In the future the Chair will call the votes after 15 minutes.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The rule is 15 minutes. The votes will be 
called in 15 minutes.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session to 
consider Calendar No. 681.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman).
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 331 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--40

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

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                             NOT VOTING--8

     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Feinstein
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     Mikulski
     Portman
     Sanders
  The motion was agreed to.

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