[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2060]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  AMERICAN FAMILY ECONOMIC PROTECTION ACT OF 2013--MOTION TO PROCEED--
                               Continued


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  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 
     proceed to Calendar No. 18, S. 388, a bill to appropriately 
     limit sequestration, to eliminate tax loopholes, and for 
     other purposes.
         Harry Reid, Barbara A. Mikulski, Patty Murray, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Mark Begich, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Jack 
           Reed, Sherrod Brown, Patrick J. Leahy, Robert P. Casey, 
           Jr., Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Charles E. Schumer, 
           Barbara Boxer, Debbie Stabenow.

  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 proceed to S. 388, a bill to appropriately limit 
sequestration, to eliminate tax loopholes, and for other purposes, 
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.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 49, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 27 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--49

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Landrieu
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Warren). On this vote the yeas are 51, the 
nays are 49. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on my motion to proceed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.
  The majority leader.

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