[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 20, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5904-S5905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017--MOTION TO PROCEED--
                               Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, we just had another good conversation 
on this side with our Members and are now prepared to proceed to the 
bill that we used as a shell for the CR-Zika legislation.
  I might say to all of our Members that we continue to work toward an 
agreement on the legislation. We hope to have that completed and 
available for review very soon. With a little cooperation on both 
sides, I think we can get that finished and begin the debate.


                             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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 516. H.R. 5325, an act making 
     appropriations for the Legislative Branch for fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Orrin G. Hatch, Shelley 
           Moore Capito, Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds, Marco Rubio, 
           Cory Gardner, Pat Roberts, Roy Blunt, John Barrasso, 
           Roger F. Wicker, Steve Daines, Daniel Coats, John 
           Thune, Thad Cochran, Susan M. Collins.

  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 H.R. 5325, an act making appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Sessions).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and 
the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 144 Leg.]

                                YEAS--89

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy

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     Murray
     Nelson
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Vitter
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--7

     Cruz
     Heller
     Lankford
     Lee
     Paul
     Perdue
     Sasse

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Coons
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Sessions
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 89, the nays are 7.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Montana.

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