[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16395]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes equally divided prior 
to the cloture vote on the Coloretti nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mrs. McCASKILL. I yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  Under the previous order, pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the ending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  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 
     Nani A. Coloretti, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development.
         Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Patrick J. Leahy, Patty Murray, 
           Tom Udall, Brian Schatz, Charles E. Schumer, Barbara 
           Boxer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff 
           Merkley, Al Franken, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Martin 
           Heinrich, Elizabeth Warren, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Christopher Murphy.

  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 
nomination of Nani A. Coloretti, of California, to be Deputy Secretary 
of Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) 
and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator 
from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 295 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

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

                                NAYS--34

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Coburn
     Cochran
     Graham
     Landrieu
     Murkowski
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 
34.
  The motion is agreed to.

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