[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       INVESTING IN A NEW VISION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SURFACE 
            TRANSPORTATION IN AMERICA ACT--Motion to Proceed

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I move to proceed to the motion to 
reconsider the vote by which the cloture vote failed on the motion to 
proceed to H.R. 3684.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the cloture failed on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3684.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
reconsider.
  The motion was agreed to.


                             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 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. 100, H.R. 3684, a bill to authorize 
     funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and 
     transit programs, and for other purposes.
          Charles E. Schumer, Alex Padilla, Jeff Merkley, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Jon Tester, Christopher A. Coons, Benjamin 
           L. Cardin , Jack Reed, Patrick J. Leahy, Tim Kaine, 
           Tammy Baldwin, John Hickenlooper, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Tammy Duckworth, Patty Murray, Joe Manchin III, Mark 
           Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema.

  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. 3684, a bill to authorize funds for Federal-
aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for 
other purposes, shall be brought to a close, upon reconsideration?
  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 Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Leg.]

                                YEAS--67

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--32

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Rounds

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 67, the 
nays are 32.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion, upon reconsideration, is agreed to.


                           Motion to Proceed

  The clerk will report the motion.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to H.R. 3684, a bill to authorize funds 
     for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and 
     transit programs, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I want to commend the group of Senators 
who worked with President Biden to reach an agreement on a bipartisan 
infrastructure bill. The Senate has just come together and, in a strong 
bipartisan fashion, voted to begin the legislative process here on the 
Senate floor.
  For the past few months, I have laid out a two-track strategy on 
infrastructure: a bipartisan bill, focused on traditional, brick-and-
mortar infrastructure projects, and a budget reconciliation bill, where 
Democrats plan to make historic investments in American jobs, American 
families, and efforts to fight climate change.
  In order to start work on a reconciliation bill, the Senate must pass 
a budget resolution first. As I have said repeatedly, our goal was to 
pass both bills in this session--hopefully, in July.
  My goal remains to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a 
budget resolution during this work period--both.
  It might take some long nights. It might eat into our weekends. But 
we are going to get the job done, and we are on track.
  Again, the vote tonight means we are on track to reach our two-track 
goal before the Senate adjourns for the August recess

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