[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16631-16632]
[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 Williams nomination.
  Mr. REID. I yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time has been yielded 
back.
  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 nomination of 
     Ellen Dudley Williams, of Maryland, to be Director of the 
     Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy, Department of 
     Energy.
         Harry Reid, Christopher Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten 
           E. Gillibrand, Ron Wyden, Tom Harkin, Angus S. King, 
           Jr., Richard Blumenthal, Charles E. Schumer, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Amy Klobuchar, Barbara Boxer, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Bernard Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley.

  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 Ellen Dudley Williams, of Maryland, to be Director of the 
Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy, 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), and the Senator 
from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from 
Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Warren). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 315 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

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

                                NAYS--34

     Ayotte
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Wicker

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                             NOT VOTING--9

     Barrasso
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cruz
     Inhofe
     Landrieu
     Moran
     Murphy
     Udall (CO)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 
34.
  The motion is agreed to.

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