[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 19179-19180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             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 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 nomination of 
     Jeh Charles Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of 
     Homeland Security.
         Harry Reid, Sherrod Brown, Christopher Murphy, Robert 
           Menendez, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Martin Heinrich, Amy Klobuchar, Dianne Feinstein, Tom 
           Udall, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Bernard Sanders, Barbara 
           Boxer, Brian Schatz, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Thomas R. 
           Carper, Benjamin L. Cardin, Michael F. Bennet.


                              Quorum Call

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair now directs 
the clerk to call the roll to ascertain the presence of a quorum.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll and the 
following Senators entered the Chamber and answered to their names:

                            [Quorum No. 13]

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Bennet
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Franken
     Grassley
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Thune
     Toomey
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Jeh Charles Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of 
Homeland Security, 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.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 275 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     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
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--37

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McConnell
     Moran
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Blunt
     Graham
     Kirk
     McCain
     Paul
     Vitter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the ayes are 57, the nays are 37.

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  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the remaining 
votes this evening be 10 minutes in duration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is 
so ordered.

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