[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 15964-15965]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   TEACHERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS BACK TO WORK ACT OF 2011--MOTION TO 
                                PROCEED


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will state.
  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 the debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 204, S. 1723, Teachers and First 
     Responders Back to Work Act.

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         Harry Reid, Robert Menendez, Daniel Inouye, Herb Kohl, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Jack Reed, Jeff Bingaman, Barbara 
           Mikulski, Patty Murray, Debbie Stabenow, Richard 
           Durbin, Sherrod Brown, Richard Blumenthal, Bernard 
           Sanders, Robert Casey, Jr., Jeff Merkley, Patrick 
           Leahy, Tom Harkin.

  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 S. 1723, a bill to provide for teacher and first 
responder stabilization, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 177 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Boxer
     Brown (OH)
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Conrad
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown (MA)
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Kyl
     Lee
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Begich). On this vote, the yeas are 50, 
the nays are 50. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all remaining 
votes tonight be 10 minutes in duration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have 16 more amendments that we must vote 
on. I hope people will look at those closely. A number of them--in 
fact, most of them--can be done by voice vote. If they win, it doesn't 
matter how you win. Let's get done with them as quickly as we can.

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