[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 81 (Saturday, May 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3313-S3314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CLOTURE MOTION
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will
state.
The senior 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,
do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to
proceed to H.R. 2048, an act to reform the authorities of the
Federal Government to require the production of certain
business records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen
registers and trap and trace devises, and use other forms of
information gathering for foreign intelligence,
counterterrorism, and criminal purposes, and for other
purposes.
Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, Michael B. Enzi, David
Vitter, John Cornyn, Johnny Isakson, Lisa Murkowski,
John Barrasso, Richard Burr, Pat Roberts, Roy Blunt,
Bob Corker, Orrin G. Hatch, Jerry Moran, Patrick J.
Toomey, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 H.R. 2048, an act to reform the authorities of the
Federal Government to require the production of certain business
records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap
and trace devices, and use other forms of information gathering for
foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal purposes, 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi).
The ACTING OFFICER pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the
Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows:
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[Rollcall Vote No. 194 Leg.]
YEAS--57
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Boxer
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cruz
Daines
Donnelly
Durbin
Feinstein
Flake
Franken
Gardner
Gillibrand
Heinrich
Heitkamp
Heller
Hirono
Hoeven
Johnson
Kaine
Klobuchar
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
Markey
McCaskill
Menendez
Merkley
Mikulski
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Nelson
Peters
Reed
Reid
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Scott
Shaheen
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tester
Udall
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--42
Alexander
Ayotte
Barrasso
Blunt
Boozman
Burr
Capito
Cassidy
Coats
Cochran
Collins
Corker
Cornyn
Cotton
Crapo
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hatch
Inhofe
Isakson
King
Kirk
McCain
McConnell
Moran
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Sessions
Shelby
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Vitter
Wicker
NOT VOTING--1
Enzi
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the
vote.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion is entered.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, the Senate has demonstrated that the
House-passed bill lacks the support of 60 Senators. I would urge a
``yes'' vote on the 2-month extension. Senator Burr, the chairman of
the Intelligence Committee, and Senator Feinstein, the ranking member,
as we all know, have been working on a proposal that they think would
improve the version that the Senate has not accepted that the House
sent over. It would allow the committee to work on this bill, refine
it, and bring it before us for consideration. So the 2-month extension,
it strikes me, would be in the best interest of getting an outcome that
is acceptable to both the Senate and the House and hopefully the
President.
Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President.
Mr. McCONNELL. So I would urge a ``yes'' vote.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from California.
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