[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5116-S5117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I move to proceed to the motion to 
reconsider the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the conference 
report to accompany H.R. 2577.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Hearing no further debate, the question is on 
agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the conference report to accompany H.R. 
2577.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Hearing no further debate, the question is on 
agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The bill 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 conference 
     report to accompany H.R. 2577, an act making appropriations 
     for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, John Thune, Orrin G. Hatch, 
           Jerry Moran, Shelley Moore Capito, Johnny Isakson, Mike 
           Crapo, Thom Tillis, John Hoeven, Joni Ernst, Steve 
           Daines, Chuck Grassley, James E. Risch, John Boozman, 
           Cory Gardner, John Barrasso.

  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 
conference report to accompany H.R. 2577, an act making appropriations 
for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2016, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close, upon 
reconsideration?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

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  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) 
and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 134 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

     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
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kirk
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                                NAYS--44

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Franken
     Klobuchar
     Lee
       
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). On this vote, the yeas are 52, 
the nays are 44.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, upon consideration, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.

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