[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Pages 7841-7842]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The 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 S. 1357, a bill to extend authority relating to 
     roving surveillance, access to business records, and 
     individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the 
     Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 until July 31, 
     2015, and for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Daniel Coats, Thom Tillis, 
           Mike Rounds, Pat Roberts, Richard Burr, John Barrasso, 
           Tom Cotton, Shelley Moore Capito, David Perdue, Lamar 
           Alexander, Michael B. Enzi, David Vitter, Johnny 
           Isakson, Roy Blunt.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent, the mandatory 
quorum call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
motion to proceed to S. 1357, a bill to extend authority relating to 
roving surveillance, access to business records, and individual 
terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 until July 31, 2015, and for other purposes, 
shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 54, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Leg.]

                                YEAS--45

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Donnelly
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kirk
     Lankford
     McCain
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                                NAYS--54

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Enzi
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 
54.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I would say to my colleagues that it is 
clear there aren't 60 votes in the Senate for the House-passed bill, 
and there aren't 60 votes for a 60-day extension.
  So I am going to propound a series of unanimous consent requests to 
see if we can avoid having the program expire roughly 1 week from now.


                       UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUESTS

  Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to a 
bill to extend the expiring provisions until June 8, and that the bill 
be read a third time and passed with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  The Senator from Kentucky.
  Mr. PAUL. Reserving the right to object, we have entered into a 
momentous debate. This is a debate about whether or not a warrant with 
a single name of a single company can be used to collect all of the 
records--all of the phone records--of all of the people in our country 
with a single warrant.
  Our forefathers would be aghast. One of the things they despised was 
general warrants. This is a debate that should be had. The reason I am 
objecting is because I have made a very simple request--to have 
amendments, to have them voted on, and to have a guarantee that they 
are voted on.
  I started out the day with a request for six amendments. I am willing 
to compromise to have two amendments and a simple majority vote.
  I think that is a very reasonable position. And if we can't have that 
and we can't have an extensive debate over something we have had 4 
years to prepare for, I will object, and I do.
  I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I renew my unanimous consent request 
with an amendment to extend expiring authorities until June 5.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. WYDEN. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I renew my unanimous consent request 
with an amendment to extend expiring authorities until June 3.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  The Senator from Kentucky.
  Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I will defer to the Senator from New Mexico 
if he wishes to make an objection.
  Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. President, I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I renew my unanimous consent request 
with an amendment to extend expiring authorities until June 2.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  The Senator from Kentucky.
  Mr. PAUL. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter my motion to reconsider.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. McCONNELL. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  The legislative clerk continued with the call of the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. 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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