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


                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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    NOMINATION OF CAROLYN WATTS COLVIN TO BE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL 
                                SECURITY

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Carolyn Watts 
Colvin, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Social Security.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. I send a cloture motion to the desk and ask that it be 
reported.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The assistant 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 
     Carolyn Watts Colvin, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of 
     Social Security.
         Harry Reid, Ron Wyden, Barbara A. Mikulski, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Christopher Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten 
           E. Gillibrand, Tom Harkin, Angus S. King, Jr., Richard 
           Blumenthal, Charles E. Schumer, Mazie K. Hirono, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Barbara Boxer, Tammy Baldwin, Bernard 
           Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, a number of Senators have come to me 
indicating that they have read the rules and the time for a vote is 15 
minutes. I ask, through the Chair, is it true that the extra 5 minutes 
is not in the rule?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Would the Senator restate his question?
  Mr. REID. We have been calling votes at the end of 20 minutes. It is 
my understanding that the rule calls for votes to be 15 minutes in 
length.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is a 15-minute vote with a 5-minute grace 
period.
  Mr. REID. Is the 5-minute grace period in the rule?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will research the unanimous consent 
from January of last year.
  Mr. REID. In the meantime, I move to proceed to legislative session.
  Mr. JOHANNS. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  Mr. HATCH addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.
  Mr. HATCH. I voted for this fine woman coming out of the committee, 
but there since have arisen all kinds of problems concerning perhaps 
criminal problems at the Social Security----
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I am sorry, I can't understand the Senator 
and I believe I have the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will come to order.
  Mr. HATCH. Madam President, I will make one more statement. There is 
enough evidence of criminal conduct there--I am not accusing her but, 
on the other hand, she was the authority there.
  Mr. REID. Regular order, Madam President.
  Mr. HATCH. We should not be voting on this at this time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The yeas and nays have been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), 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), 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 51, nays 41 as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 330 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Franken
     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--41

     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)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--8

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

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