[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 150 (Wednesday, September 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5569-S5570]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                  Unanimous Consent Agreement--S. 1790

  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, for the information of Senators, the 
cloture vote on the compound motion to go to conference on S. 1790 will 
occur at this time. I ask unanimous consent that if the compound motion 
is agreed to, it be in order for the following motions to instruct, 
which are at the desk--Van Hollen, Cotton, Jones, Schatz, Peters, 
McSally, McConnell or designee--to be considered at a time to be 
determined by the majority leader in consultation with the Democratic 
leader, but prior to September 26, in the form of Senate resolutions 
taken up and considered on the same day with no amendments in order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                             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 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 
     disagree in the House amendment, agree to the request from 
     the House for a conference and authorize the Chair to appoint 
     conferees in relation to S. 1790, a bill to authorize 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities 
     of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
     for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to 
     prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
     and for other purposes.
         James M. Inhofe, Shelley Moore Capito, Thom Tillis, John 
           Boozman, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Jerry Moran, John Cornyn, 
           Mike Crapo, Johnny Isakson, Joni Ernst, James E. Risch, 
           Roger F. Wicker, David Perdue, John Thune, Mike Rounds, 
           Kevin Cramer, Mitch McConnell.

  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 
compound motion to go to conference and appoint conferees on S. 1790, 
an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such

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fiscal year, 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Rounds).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 87, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 293 Leg.]

                                YEAS--87

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--7

     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Markey
     Merkley
     Paul
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bennet
     Booker
     Klobuchar
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Sanders
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 87, 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 Oklahoma.
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I know of no further debate on the 
motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  The motion was agreed to.

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