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CLOTURE MOTION
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. 388, H.R. 3967, a bill to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes.
Charles E. Schumer, Jon Tester, Benjamin L. Cardin, John
W. Hickenlooper, Richard Blumenthal, Jack Reed, Bernard
Sanders, Brian Schatz, Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin,
Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Martin Heinrich, Margaret Wood
Hassan, Tammy Duckworth, Kyrsten Sinema, Patrick J.
Leahy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A. Coons.
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. 3967, a bill to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows:
YEAS--86
Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden
NAYS--12
Burr Cassidy Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Paul Romney Sullivan Tillis Toomey Young
NOT VOTING--2
Feinstein Merkley
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 12.
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 97
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