[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Pages 8496-8497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will state.
  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 
     Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of 
     Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
         Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Thomas R. Carper, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Tom Udall, Angus S. King, Jr., Mark Begich, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Martin Heinrich, Patty Murray, Tom 
           Harkin, Robert Menendez, Patrick J. Leahy, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Charles E. Schumer, Heidi Heitkamp, Mark R. 
           Warner.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes of debate equally 
divided.
  Mrs. MURRAY. We yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time has been yielded 
back.
  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 Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be a Member of the Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rules.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Coats), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

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

                                NAYS--35

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Boozman
     Coats
     McConnell
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 62, the nays are 35. 
The motion is agreed to.
  Pursuant to the provisions of S. Res. 15 of the 113th Congress, there 
will be up to 8 hours postcloture consideration of the nomination 
equally divided in the usual form.
  The Senator from Florida.


                                 D-day

  Mr. NELSON. Madam President, I wish to call to the attention of the 
Senate the fact that there is a three-dimensional film I had the 
pleasure of seeing at the Air and Space Museum theater about one of the 
largest and obviously most successful military invasions in the history 
of the planet, and that was 70 years ago on June 6, 1944, what is known 
as D-day. The film is narrated by Tom Brokaw. He is a natural because 
he is well known for having written the book ``The Greatest 
Generation'' about the people who fought in World War II.
  The timeliness of this documentary film is fitting in that as we go 
from one generation to the next, the stories told by grandfathers and 
great-grandfathers to their children are not necessarily being told to 
the next and younger generation. This film captivates in 3-D the plans, 
the operation, the logistics, and the enormity of the task of taking 
back continental Europe from Hitler's armies and how we drove that by 
going onto the beaches at Normandy with our

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partners, the Canadians, the Brits, the French, and how it was done 
painfully, with a lot of loss of life, particularly on Omaha Beach--
there was a lot less resistance on Utah Beach--and how the participants 
with us from those other nations met similar and withering fire, as 
they stormed on the beaches as well the night before, the paratroopers 
dropped.
  I remember when I was a young Congressman sitting at the knee of 
Congressman Sam Gibbons of Tampa, FL, and he would tell us about the 
little clickers called crickets as the paratroopers dropped in, many of 
them because of a mistaken landing where they landed and drowned in 
areas that had been flooded by the Germans.
  But those who survived and then tried to regroup in the dark of 
night, you would determine when you ran into somebody in the dark if 
they were friend or foe by this little clicker. We call them crickets. 
You click it and it sounds like a cricket. If they clicked two times 
and the response was back, they knew they were friends; otherwise, they 
had to protect their life.
  Those are the stories that are not made up. They are real. These are 
the stories of the British pilots in gliders. How in the world, in the 
dark of night, could they bring those gliders in, landing them safely, 
getting out with those troops to go and secure the Pegasus Bridge which 
was a critical crossing point that had to be taken from the Germans?
  Story after story, how next to Omaha Beach where the fires were, 
bloody, how to the south of it was this cliff rising straight out with 
these enormous German guns on top of it, and how the U.S. Army Rangers 
scaled those rock cliffs straight up and then took on and silenced the 
German guns.
  These are the stories we do not want to lose from one generation to 
another. So this film in 3-D, narrated by Tom Brokaw, I want to commend 
to the Senate family. It will be shown around the country now that it 
has opened on the west coast and here. It is a wonderful educational 
lesson of American history, of how we turned back an invader that was 
trying to change the world. Therefore, we were able to keep America 
free, as well as our allies. I commend it to the Senate.
  I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. NELSON. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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