[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 14599-14600]
[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.

[[Page 14600]]

  The bill 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 
     Stephen G. Burns, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Nuclear 
     Regulatory Commission.
         Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Barbara A. 
           Mikulski, Richard J. Durbin, Mazie K. Hirono, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Christopher A. Coons, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Tom Udall, Edward J. Markey, Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine, 
           Bernard Sanders, Jeff Merkley, Cory A. Booker, Thomas 
           R. Carper.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate equally 
divided.
  Mrs. BOXER. I urge an ``aye'' vote.
  I yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back.
  By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Stephen G. Burns, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 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 Indiana (Mr. Donnelly), 
and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) 
would have voted ``Nay''.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 264 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--37

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Chambliss
     Donnelly
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Moran
     Roberts
     Shelby
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 54, the nays are 37.
  The motion is agreed to.


                            Vote Explanation

 Mr. DONNELLY. Madam President, I regret having missed today's 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture on S. 2199, the Paycheck Fairness 
Act. Had I been present, I would have voted in favor of the motion to 
invoke cloture on S. 2199.
  In addition, had I been present, I would have voted in favor of the 
motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar No. 1004, Jeffery Martin 
Baran, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
and the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar No. 1003, 
Stephen G. Burns, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission.

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