[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 60 (Thursday, April 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2371]
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                             Cloture Motion

  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 nomination 
     of Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General.
         Mitch McConnell, Richard Burr, John Cornyn, Lamar 
           Alexander, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Susan M. Collins, 
           Orrin G. Hatch, Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Harry 
           Reid, Richard J. Durbin, Patrick J. Leahy, Patty 
           Murray, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Charles 
           E. Schumer.

  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 
nomination of Loretta E. Lynch, of New York, to be Attorney General 
shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 164 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--34

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Lankford
     Lee
     McCain
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Perdue
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). On this vote, the yeas are 66, 
the nays are 34.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Cloture having been invoked, under the previous order, there will be 
up to 2 hours of postcloture debate equally divided between the two 
leaders prior to a vote on the Lynch nomination.
  Mr. LEAHY. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
order for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.