[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 155 (Tuesday, December 16, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6897]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  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 the nomination of 
     Colette Dodson Honorable, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the 
     Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
         Harry Reid, Brian Schatz, Patrick J. Leahy, Bernard 
           Sanders, John E. Walsh, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Tom 
           Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Christopher A. Coons, Robert Menendez, Carl 
           Levin, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Richard J. Durbin.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the nomination of Colette Dodson Honorable, of Arkansas, 
to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 California (Mrs. Boxer) 
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 Mississippi (Mr. 
Cochran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 363 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coburn
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--28

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Coats
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     McCain
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Boxer
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Johanns
     Lee
     Sanders
     Sessions
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 
28.
  The motion is agreed to.

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