[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16567-16568]
[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 a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
the Hezir nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. CARDIN. I ask unanimous consent all time be yielded back.
  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 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 
     Joseph S. Hezir, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial Officer, 
     Department of Energy.
         Harry Reid, Mary Landrieu, Patrick J. Leahy, Elizabeth 
           Warren, Robert Menendez, Barbara Mikulski, Jack Reed, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Carl Levin, Christopher Murphy, 
           Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Sheldon Whitehouse, Patty 
           Murray, Thomas Carper, John D. Rockefeller IV, Jeff 
           Merkley, Richard J. Durbin, Benjamin Cardin.

  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 Joseph S. Hezir, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial 
Officer of the 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu), the Senator from West Virginia

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(Mr. Rockefeller), 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 68, nays 27, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 307 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

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

                                NAYS--27

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Burr
     Corker
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Scott
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Coburn
     Cochran
     Landrieu
     Rockefeller
     Udall (CO)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 
27.
  The motion is agreed to.

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