[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 19472-19473]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion.
  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 
     Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be Chairman of the Board 
     of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
       Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Barbara Boxer, Mark Begich, 
     Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tom Udall, Debbie 
     Stabenow, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bernard Sanders, Mazie K. 
     Hirono, Jon Tester, Brian Schatz, Martin Heinrich, Claire 
     McCaskill, Heidi Heitkamp, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call under rule XXII has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Janet Yellen, of California, to be Chairman of the Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is 
necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Nevada (Mr. Reid) would vote ``yea.''
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), and the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kaine). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

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

                                NAYS--34

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cornyn
     Crapo

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     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Alexander
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Flake
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Reid
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 59, the nays are 34.
  The motion is agreed to.

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