[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 206 (Thursday, December 19, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7192-S7193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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             DHS CYBER INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAMS ACT OF 2019

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now resume legislative 
session.
  The Senate resumed consideration of the House message to H.R. 1158, a 
bill to authorize cyber incident response teams at the Department of 
Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
  Pending:
  McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the 
amendment of the Senate to the bill.
  McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the 
amendment of the Senate to the bill, with McConnell Amendment No. 1263 
(to the House amendment to the Senate amendment), to change the 
enactment date.
  McConnell Amendment No. 1264 (to Amendment No. 1263), of a perfecting 
nature.
  McConnell motion to refer the message of the House on the bill to the 
Committee on Appropriations, with instructions, McConnell Amendment No. 
1265, to change the enactment date.
  McConnell Amendment No. 1266 (the instructions (Amendment No. 1265) 
of the motion to refer), of a perfecting nature.
  McConnell Amendment No. 1267 (to Amendment No. 1266), of a perfecting 
nature.


                             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 concur in the House amendment to the 
Senate amendment to H.R. 1158, a bill to authorize cyber incident 
response teams at the Department of Homeland Security, and for other 
purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, Susan M. Collins, Richard Burr, David 
           Perdue, Pat Roberts, John Cornyn, Shelley Moore Capito, 
           John Thune, John Boozman, Rob Portman, Richard C. 
           Shelby, Roy Blunt, Jerry Moran, John Hoeven, Roger F. 
           Wicker, Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate on the 
motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 
1158, a bill (H.R. 1158) entitled ``An Act to authorize cyber incident 
response teams at the Department of Homeland Security, 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 Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote or change their vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 16, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 427 Leg.]

                                YEAS--77

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

                                NAYS--16

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Gillibrand
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lee
     Markey
     Merkley
     Schumer
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Booker
     Harris
     Isakson
     Klobuchar
     Paul
     Sanders
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 
16.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Under the previous order, cloture having been invoked on the motion 
to concur, the other pending motions are withdrawn.


                        Vote on Motion to Concur

  The question occurs on agreeing to the motion to concur.
  Ms. ERNST. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?

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  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), 
and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 11, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 428 Leg.]

                                YEAS--81

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

                                NAYS--11

     Braun
     Carper
     Cruz
     Gillibrand
     Hawley
     Lee
     Markey
     Merkley
     Schumer
     Van Hollen
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Booker
     Burr
     Harris
     Isakson
     Klobuchar
     Paul
     Sanders
     Warren
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Dakota.

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