[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14096]
[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, 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 motion to 
     proceed to calendar No. 471, S.J. Res. 19, a joint resolution 
     proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
     States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to 
     affect elections.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom Udall, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Christopher Murphy, Christopher A. Coons, Charles E. 
           Schumer, John D. Rockefeller, IV, Maria Cantwell, Patty 
           Murray, Dianne Feinstein, Bill Nelson, Tom Harkin, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Al Franken, Amy 
           Klobuchar.

  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.J. Res. 19, a joint resolution proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to 
contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections, 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.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. 
Gillibrand) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 259 Leg.]

                                YEAS--79

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--18

     Barrasso
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Scott
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Blunt
     Gillibrand
     Murkowski
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 79, the nays are 18. Three-fifths 
of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, 
the motion is agreed to.

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