[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9882]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
              APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2016--CONFERENCE REPORT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before the 
Senate the conference report accompanying H.R. 2577.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 2577, which will be stated by 
title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the House to the amendment of 
     the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2577), making appropriations for 
     the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, having met, have 
     agreed that the Senate recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate and 
     agree to the same with an amendment and the House agree to 
     the same, signed by a majority of the conferees on the part 
     of both Houses.

  Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to consider the conference report.
  (The conference report is printed in the House proceedings of the 
Record of June 22, 2016.)


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. 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 conference 
     report to accompany H.R. 2577, an act making appropriations 
     for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Mike Rounds, Thad Cochran, 
           Roy Blunt, John Barrasso, Marco Rubio, Lamar Alexander, 
           Tom Cotton, Bill Cassidy, John Hoeven, Thom Tillis, 
           Jeff Flake, James M. Inhofe, Tim Scott, Shelley Moore 
           Capito, Steve Daines.

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum call be waived with respect to the cloture motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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