[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    TRANSACTION ACCOUNT GUARANTEE PROGRAM EXTENSION ACT--MOTION TO 
                           PROCEED--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). The Senate will come to 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to calendar No. 554, S. 3637, a bill to temporarily 
     extend the transaction account guarantee program, and for 
     other purposes.
         Harry Reid, Joseph I. Lieberman, Jeff Bingaman, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Mark Begich, Jon Tester, Max Baucus, Herb 
           Kohl, Kay R. Hagan, Barbara A. Mikulski, Tim Johnson, 
           Mary L. Landrieu, Kent Conrad, Jeanne Shaheen, Jeff 
           Merkley, Daniel K. Akaka, Mark L. Pryor.

  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. 3637, a bill to temporarily extend the 
transaction account guarantee program, and for other purposes, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) and 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 20, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Leg.]

                                YEAS--76

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--20

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Coburn
     Corker
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Graham
     Hatch
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Chambliss
     Inouye
     Kirk
     Lautenberg
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 
20. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The motion to proceed is agreed to.

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