[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18885-18886]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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   NOMINATION OF FRANK A. ROSE TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE 
                     (VERIFICATION AND COMPLIANCE)

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Frank A. Rose, 
of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Verification 
and Compliance).

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, there is a cloture motion at the desk, and I 
ask that it be reported.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The 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 
     Frank A. Rose, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of State (Verification and Compliance).
         Harry Reid, Robert Menendez, Patrick J. Leahy, Martin 
           Heinrich, Jack Reed, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Udall, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Bill Nelson, Barbara Boxer, Thomas 
           R. Carper, Edward J. Markey, Jeff Merkley, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Jon Tester, Richard J. Durbin, Charles E. 
           Schumer.

  Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to legislative session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. WICKER. I demand 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 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 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 336 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--41

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     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--7

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

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