[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 153 (Saturday, December 13, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6801]
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     MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if I could have everyone's attention.
  I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration 
of H.J. Res. 131, which is a short-term continuing resolution that will 
go until Wednesday, December 17, 2014, which the Senate received from 
the House and is at the desk; further, that the joint resolution be 
read three times and the Senate now proceed to vote on passage of the 
joint resolution with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Hearing none, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the joint resolution by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (H.J. Res. 131) making further 
     continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other 
     purposes.

  The Senate proceeded to consider the joint resolution.
  The joint resolution was ordered to a third reading and was read the 
third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution having been read the 
third time, the question is, Shall the joint resolution pass?
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 131) was passed.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be 
made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar 
No. 1144.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. RISCH. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator 
from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 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 PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Landrieu). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 337 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

     Baldwin
     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
     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--9

     Begich
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Feinstein
     Inhofe
     Mikulski
     Portman
     Sanders
     Stabenow
  The motion was agreed to

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