[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16916]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        FEDERAL WATER QUALITY PROTECTION ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 
153, S. 1140.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 153, S. 1140, a bill to 
     require the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of 
     the Environmental Protection Agency to propose a regulation 
     revising the definition of the term ``waters of the United 
     States,'' and for other purposes.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The senior assistant legislative 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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 153, S. 1140, a bill to require the 
     Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to propose a regulation 
     revising the definition of the term ``waters of the United 
     States,'' and for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, Dean Heller, Jeff Flake, Steve Daines, 
           Johnny Isakson, Mike Rounds, Ben Sasse, Roy Blunt, 
           Daniel Coats, John Cornyn, John Boozman, Richard Burr, 
           Cory Gardner, Shelley Moore Capito, Richard C. Shelby, 
           David Perdue, John Barrasso.

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