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




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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NOMINATION OF SARAH R. SALDANA TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF HOMELAND 
                                SECURITY

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Sarah R. 
Saldana, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Could we have order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will come to order.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, we have a series of votes we are going to 
do today and we are going to cut the votes off at the exact time, so 
everybody would be better off to stay here on the Senate floor because 
these are going to move every 20 minutes.


                             Cloture Motion

  There is a cloture motion at the desk which I ask the Chair to order 
be reported.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.

                             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 
     Sarah R. Saldana, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
     Homeland Security.
         Harry Reid, Thomas R. Carper, 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.

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory 
quorum under rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. WICKER. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  The Senate will be in order.
  Mr. REID. I move to proceed to legislative session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second?
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator 
from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Portman).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 40 as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 328 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Feinstein
     Inhofe
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Portman
     Sanders
  The motion was agreed to.

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