[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 12123-12124]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to the motion to 
reconsider vote No. 250, the vote by which cloture was not invoked on 
the motion to proceed to H.R. 22.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 22.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.

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  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 Calendar No. 19, H.R. 22, an act to amend the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health 
     coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from 
     being taken into account for purposes of determining the 
     employers to which the employer mandate applies under the 
     Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
         Mitch McConnell, Roger F. Wicker, Shelley Moore Capito, 
           Rob Portman, John Cornyn, James M. Inhofe, Daniel 
           Coats, John Boozman, Johnny Isakson, Pat Roberts, John 
           Barrasso, Mike Rounds, Mike Crapo, Roy Blunt, Thom 
           Tillis, Deb Fischer, Richard Burr.

  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 
motion to proceed to H.R. 22, Hire More Heroes Act of 2015, shall be 
brought to a close, upon reconsideration?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Boozman) would have voted ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 251 Leg.]

                                YEAS--62

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boxer
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Vitter
     Whitehouse
     Wicker

                                NAYS--36

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cruz
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Lee
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Rubio
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Boozman
     Murkowski
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 
36.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed to.

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