[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 24493-24494]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                        2010--CONFERENCE REPORT

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the 
consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 3183.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The report will be stated.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     3183), making appropriations for energy and water development 
     and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2010, and for other purposes, having met, have agreed to 
     recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses that 
     the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of 
     the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment and the 
     Senate agree to the same, signed by a majority of the 
     conferees on the part of both Houses.

  (The conference report is printed in the House proceedings of the 
Record of September 30, 2009.)


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. I have a cloture motion on the conference report at the 
desk. I ask that it be stated.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the conference 
     report to accompany H.R. 3183, the Energy and Water 
     Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
         Harry Reid, Charles E. Schumer, Patrick J. Leahy, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Evan Bayh, Mark L. Pryor, Jon Tester, Robert 
           Menendez, Frank R. Lautenberg, Kent Conrad, Patty 
           Murray, John F. Kerry, Daniel K. Inouye, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Carl Levin, Jack Reed, John D. Rockefeller 
           IV, Bill Nelson.

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote on the 
conference report occur upon disposition of H.R. 2847, provided that if 
cloture is not invoked on the substitute amendment to H.R. 2847, then a 
motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the 
substitute be considered entered; that the cloture vote on the bill be 
delayed to occur upon reconsideration, and that upon reconsideration 
and cloture is not invoked on the substitute, then the cloture motion 
on the bill be withdrawn; further, that if cloture has not been invoked 
as specified above, then the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
the conference report to accompany H.R. 3183 occur 1 hour after the 
Senate convenes on Wednesday, October 14, and that the mandatory quorum 
be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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