[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 179 (Tuesday, November 13, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6908-S6909]
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 senior assistant bill clerk (Lindsay Gibmeyer) 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 
     concur in the House amendment to accompany S. 140, an act to 
     amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights 
     Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in 
     the WMAT Settlement Fund with a further amendment.
         Mitch McConnell, John Thune, Roy Blunt, Johnny Isakson, 
           Mike Rounds, Jon Kyl, Tom Cotton, Roger F. Wicker, Thom 
           Tillis, John Boozman, Steve Daines, John Barrasso, 
           David Perdue, Pat Roberts, John Hoeven, Mike Crapo, 
           Lindsey Graham.

  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 concur in the House amendment to S. 140, an act to amend the 
White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to 
clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund, with the 
amendment No. 4054, as modified, offered by the Senator from Kentucky 
[Mr. McConnell], 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 Georgia (Mr. Isakson).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. 
McCaskill) is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 5, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Leg.]

                                YEAS--93

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Kyl
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--5

     Cardin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Sanders

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Isakson
     McCaskill
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 93, the nays are 5.
  Three-fifths of Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Montana.


                        Tribute to Jason Gleason

  Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, on the heels of Veteran's Day and in honor 
of President Trump's designating November 2018 as National Veterans and 
Military Families Month, I have the distinct pleasure of recognizing 
Jason Gleason of Great Falls, MT, for his

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dedication to serving veterans in North Central Montana.
  Jason serves as a nurse practitioner in the Great Falls VA Community 
Based Outpatient Clinic and has become one of the most sought-after 
experts in veterans' healthcare. A veteran himself, Jason spent 20 
years in the Montana Air National Guard, retiring as lieutenant 
colonel.
  During his time in the Guard, he served as officer in charge of 
health promotion, medical readiness, staff development, and as 
assistant chief nurse, where he gained a great deal of knowledge and 
experience caring for fellow servicemembers.
  Jason retired from the Air National Guard in 2015, and since then he 
has dedicated himself to providing exceptional healthcare to Montana 
veterans. He has built and maintained a patient panel that is at 110 
percent capacity and has 1,000 patients. When another provider recently 
retired, he stepped up and took over the patient panel and provided 
care to another 556 veterans.
  Jason has worked to improve the overall Montana VA system. He has 
recruited and mentored other nurse practitioners, which helped fill 
critical positions in the VA system. Jason also participated in a VA 
residency program that trains providers to better serve our women 
veterans.
  In 2011, he experienced a deep personal tragedy when his wife of 16 
years, Heather, passed away from a stroke, leaving him a widower with 
three children. After his wife's death, he dedicated himself to 
becoming an expert on strokes.
  He regularly speaks to healthcare providers across the country about 
stroke prevention and treatment and received the Montana State 
Department of Health and Human Services Stroke Hero of the Year Award.
  Montana is incredibly lucky to have a healthcare professional like 
Jason Gleason serving our veterans. He is truly an excellent example of 
someone who puts service before self. He understands that his service 
to our country did not end with his service in the military.
  I want to personally congratulate and thank Jason for his excellent 
work.
  Thank you, Mr. President.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.

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