[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 19181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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NOMINATION OF JOHN ANDREW KOSKINEN, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO BE 
                    COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 459.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) 
and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) are necessarily absent.
  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).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 278 Leg.]

                                YEAS--55

     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     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
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Blunt
     Graham
     Kirk
     Landrieu
     Levin
     McCain
     Paul
     Vitter
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of John Andrew 
Koskinen, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  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 nomination of 
     John Andrew Koskinen, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
         Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Barbara Boxer, Mark Begich, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tom Udall, 
           Debbie Stabenow, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bernard Sanders, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Mazie K. Hirono, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Jon Tester, Brian Schatz, Martin Heinrich, 
           Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp.

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