[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18881-18882]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     INSULAR AREAS AND FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the message to accompany H.R. 83, which the 
clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate 
     amendment to H.R. 83, an act to require the Secretary of the 
     Interior to assemble a team of technical, policy, and 
     financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular 
     areas of the United States and the Freely Associated States 
     through the development of energy action plans aimed at 
     promoting access to affordable, reliable energy, including 
     increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources, and for 
     other purposes.

  Pending:

       Reid motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the 
     amendment of the Senate to the bill.
       Reid motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the 
     amendment of the Senate

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     to the bill, with Reid amendment No. 4100 (to the amendment 
     of the House to the amendment of the Senate to the bill), to 
     change the enactment date.
       Reid amendment No. 4101 (to amendment No. 4100), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Reid motion to refer the message of the House on the bill 
     to the Committee on Appropriations, with instructions, Reid 
     amendment No. 4102, to change the enactment date.
       Reid amendment No. 4103 (to (the instructions) amendment 
     No. 4102), of a perfecting nature.
       Reid amendment No. 4104 (to amendment No. 4103), of a 
     perfecting nature.

  Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to executive session to consider 
Calendar No. 1084.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Johanns), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 35, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 327 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--35

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Blunt
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Corker
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Nelson
     Portman
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Scott
     Udall (CO)
  The motion was agreed to.

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