[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11966]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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   NOMINATION OF NORMAN C. BAY TO BE A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL ENERGY 
                         REGULATORY COMMISSION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination, 
which the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Norman C. Bay, of New Mexico, 
to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 
minutes of debate prior to a vote to invoke cloture on the Bay 
nomination.
  Mr. KAINE. I ask unanimous consent that the time be yielded back.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  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 
     Norman C. Bay, of New Mexico, to be a Member of the Federal 
     Energy Regulatory Commission.
         Harry Reid, Tom Udall, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Jack Reed, 
           Tim Kaine, Patrick J. Leahy, Barbara Boxer, Bill 
           Nelson, Christopher A. Coons, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Christopher Murphy, Patty Murray, 
           Martin Heinrich, Tom Harkin, Tammy Baldwin, Cory A. 
           Booker.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 Norman C. Bay, of New Mexico, to be a member of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 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 Alaska (Mr. Begich) and 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Corker).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Corker) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 222 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--45

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Alexander
     Begich
     Corker
     Schatz
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 51, the nays are 45. 
The motion is agreed to.

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