[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10709-10710]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. There are now 2 minutes equally divided 
prior to a cloture vote on the Rodriguez nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I yield back all time.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, all time is yielded 
back.
  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 
     Leon Rodriguez, of Maryland, to be Director of the United 
     States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of 
     Homeland Security.

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         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, Patty 
           Murray, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Angus S. King, Jr., Thomas R. 
           Carper, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Charles E. Schumer.

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Leon Rodriguez, of Maryland, to be Director of the United 
States Citizenship and Immigration Services shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) and 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Johanns).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 210 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--44

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Cochran
     Johanns
     Pryor
     Schatz
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. 
The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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