[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 5740-5741]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 NOMINATION OF PETER CYRIL WYCHE FLORY TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF 
                                DEFENSE

  Mr. WARNER. I urge we proceed immediately to the second vote, a 
cloture vote on Peter Flory.


                             cloture motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will 
report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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 nomination 
     of Peter Cyril Wyche Flory to be an Assistant Secretary of 
     Defense.
         Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander, Mike Crapo, Jim Bunning, 
           Richard Burr, Wayne Allard, Johnny Isakson, Richard 
           Shelby, Craig Thomas, Ted Stevens, David Vitter, James 
           Inhofe, Chuck Hagel, Norm Coleman, Mike DeWine, Robert 
           F. Bennett, John Thune.

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, this will be the last recorded vote of the 
day. There could be a voice vote subsequently, but this will be the 
last recorded vote for the record.
  Mr. LEVIN. Whether cloture is invoked or not, we have agreed this 
will be the last vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.

[[Page 5741]]

  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Peter Cyril Wyche Flory, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense, be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murrary), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) 
are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Thune). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 41, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 92 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--41

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bingaman
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Salazar
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Biden
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Murray
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Stevens
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays 41. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. LEVIN. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. WARNER. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

                          ____________________