[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
the Orr nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. GRASSLEY. I yield back our time.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. I yield back our time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  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 nomination of 
     Franklin M. Orr, Jr., of California, to be Under Secretary 
     for Science, Department of Energy.
         Harry Reid, Mary Landrieu, Jon Tester, Barbara Boxer, 
           Charles E. Schumer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patrick J. 
           Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Christopher A. Coons, John D. Rockefeller IV, Carl 
           Levin, Bill Nelson, Ron Wyden, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Christopher Murphy, Patty Murray, Tom Udall.

  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 Franklin M. Orr, Jr., of California, to be Under 
Secretary for Science, Department of Energy, 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 Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) 
and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 306 Ex.]

                                YEAS--71

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

                                NAYS--25

     Blunt
     Boozman
     Corker
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Coburn
     Cochran
     Landrieu
     Udall (CO)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 
25. The motion is agreed to.

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