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




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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      NOMINATION OF ANTONY BLINKEN TO BE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The assistant bill clerk read the nomination of Antony Blinken, of 
New York, to be Deputy Secretary of State.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask that the cloture motion at the desk be 
reported.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The cloture motion having been presented 
under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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 
     Antony Blinken, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of State.
         Harry Reid, Brian Schatz, Patrick J. Leahy, Bernard 
           Sanders, John E. Walsh, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Tom 
           Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Christopher A. Coons, Robert Menendez, Carl 
           Levin, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Richard J. Durbin.

  Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to legislative session.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the motion 
to proceed to legislative session.
  Mr. COATS. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. CRUZ. Mr. President, would the majority leader yield for a 
unanimous consent request?
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate is in a rollcall vote.
  The assistant bill 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 (Mr. King). Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 334 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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