[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 16590-16591]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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  NOMINATION OF MELVIN L. WATT TO BE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL HOUSING 
                       FINANCE AGENCY--Continued

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, it is my understanding we are going to move 
now to the nomination of Mr. Watt. I yield back the time for the 
majority and the Republicans.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. The time is 
yielded back.


                             Cloture Motion

  Under the previous order, the cloture motion having been presented 
under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.

                             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 nomination of 
     Melvin L. Watt, of North Carolina, to be Director of the 
     Federal Housing Finance Agency.
         Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Mark Begich, Patrick J. Leahy, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Martin Heinrich, Patty Murray, 
           Bernard Sanders, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. Cardin, Al 
           Franken, Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Thomas 
           R. Carper, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bill Nelson, Charles E. 
           Schumer.

  The VICE PRESIDENT. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call 
has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Melvin L. Watt, of North Carolina, to be Director of the 
Federal Housing Finance Agency for a term of 5 years, 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. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz).
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester

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     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--42

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Cruz
     Inhofe
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote the yeas are 56, the nays are 42. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having not voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on the Watt nomination.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The motion is entered.

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