[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 19234-19235]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum required under rule XXII be waived with respect to the 
cloture motion relative to H.J. Res. 59.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair 
directs the clerk to read the motion to invoke cloture.
  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 motion to 
     concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.J. 
     Res. 59, the Bipartisan Budget Act.
         Harry Reid, Patty Murray, Max Baucus, Mark Begich, 
           Barbara Boxer, Richard Blumenthal, Tom Udall, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Sheldon Whitehouse, Claire

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           McCaskill, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher A. Coons, Jon 
           Tester, Brian Schatz, Martin Heinrich, Joe Donnelly, 
           Heidi Heitkamp, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

  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 concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.J. 
Res. 59, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, 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.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Leg.]

                                YEAS--67

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (WI)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--33

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Kirk
     Lee
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67 and the nays are 
33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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