[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 171 (Thursday, October 1, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S6015]
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                             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. 551, S. 4653, a bill to protect the 
     healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of the United 
     States and prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to 
     advocate courts to strike down the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Patty Murray, Tim 
           Kaine, Martin Heinrich, Jack Reed, Jeff Merkley, 
           Bernard Sanders, Jon Tester, Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian 
           Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, Richard Blumenthal, Angus S. 
           King, Jr., Michael F. Bennet, Edward J. Markey, Chris 
           Van Hollen, Sheldon Whitehouse, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 4653, a bill to protect the 
healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of the United States and 
prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to advocate courts to 
strike down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) 
and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Loeffler
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Alexander
     Graham
     Harris
     Lee
     Rubio
     Tester
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
43.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.