[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 34 (Friday, February 27, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1192]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 534.
  The Senator from Maine.
  Ms. COLLINS. Madam President, my bill would block the extraordinarily 
broad immigration actions issued by the President in November of last 
year. The President himself knows he lacks the authority to take such 
actions--he has said so publicly on 22 occasions.
  I support comprehensive immigration reform. But the President's 2014 
Executive order overreach usurps the role of Congress, and undermines 
our system of checks and balances. We must stand tall for the 
separation of powers doctrine in our Constitution.
  We can do so while protecting the much more limited June 2012 
Executive order that created the so-called DACA program that benefits 
DREAMers. Under my bill, the DACA program will continue just as it was 
designed by the President in 2012.
  Madam President, I yield back all time on this side.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All majority time is yielded back.
  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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to S. 534, a bill to prohibit funds from being used 
     to carry out certain Executive actions related to immigration 
     and for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, Susan M. Collins, John Thune, Cory 
           Gardner, Lamar Alexander, Daniel Coats, James Lankford, 
           John Barrasso, John McCain, Bill Cassidy, Roger F. 
           Wicker, John Hoeven, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, 
           Shelley Moore Capito, Ron Johnson, Richard Burr.

  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 
motion to proceed to S. 534, a bill to prohibit funds from being used 
to carry out certain Executive actions related to immigration and for 
other purposes, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 63 Leg.]

                                YEAS--57

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kirk
     Lankford
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                                NAYS--42

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Boxer
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 
42.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the 
vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.

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