[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 27 (Monday, February 22, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S907]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             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 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 Robert McKinnon Califf, to be Commissioner of Food and 
     Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander, Bill 
           Cassidy, Chuck Grassley, Pat Roberts, John Barrasso, 
           Richard Burr, Tim Scott, Orrin G. Hatch, Michael B. 
           Enzi, Johnny Isakson, John Boozman, Cory Gardner, Roger 
           F. Wicker, Thom Tillis, Roy Blunt. 

  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 Robert McKinnon Califf, of South Carolina, to be 
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human 
Services, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), 
the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Heller), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the Senator 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Vitter).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from North 
Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 6, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 24 Ex.]

                                YEAS--80

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--6

     Ayotte
     Blumenthal
     Manchin
     Markey
     Nelson
     Portman

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Blunt
     Booker
     Casey
     Cruz
     Flake
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     McCaskill
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Vitter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 6.
  The motion is agreed to.
  Cloture having been invoked, the clerk will report the nomination.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Robert 
McKinnon Califf, of South Carolina, to be Commissioner of Food and 
Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.
  Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The remarks of Mr. Nelson pertaining to the introduction of S. 2558 
are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills 
and Joint Resolutions.'')
  Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.