September 19, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6405 

Johanns 

Johnson (WI) 

Kyl 

Lee 

Lugar 

McCain 

McConnell 

Moran 

Paul 

Portman 

Risch 

Roberts 

Rubio 

Sessions 

Shelby 

Thune 

Toomey 

Vitter 

Wicker 

NOT VOTING—2 

Inhofe Kirk 

Mr. FRANKEN. On this vote, the 

yeas are 58 and the nays are 40. Threefifths of the Senators duly chosen and 

sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The 

point of order is sustained, and the 

amendment falls. 

Under the previous order, the cloture 

motions with respect to amendment 

No. 2789 and S. 3457 are withdrawn and 

the bill will be returned to the calendar. 

The majority leader. 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move 

to withdraw my motion to proceed to 

Calendar No. 499. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right. The motion is 

withdrawn. 

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MAKING CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISAL YEAR 2013 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move 

to proceed to Calendar No. 511, H.J. 

Res. 117, which is the continuing resolution. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

clerk will report. 

The bill clerk read as follows. 

A resolution (H.J. Res. 117) making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013, 

and for other purposes. 

CLOTURE MOTION

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am momentarily going to send to the desk a 

cloture motion that I will ask be reported. But prior to that, I am filing 

cloture. What a shame. Why would we 

have to file cloture on the continuing 

resolution? It is absurd. But I will go 

through the process and do it. I think 

it is just such a shame. 

I have a cloture motion at the desk, 

and I ask that it be reported. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented 

under rule XXII, the Chair directs the 

clerk to read the motion. 

The bill 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. 511, H.J. Res. 

117, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013, and for 

other purposes. 

Harry Reid, Daniel K. Inouye, Patty 

Murray, Bernard Sanders, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon 

Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, Ron 

Wyden, Max Baucus, Mark Pryor, 

Christopher A. Coons, Jon Tester, Michael F. Bennet, Kay R. Hagan, Robert 

P. Casey, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, 

Barbara Boxer. 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory 

quorum required under rule XXII be 

waived. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, per our previous consent agreement which is now 

before the Senate, we will have the cloture vote after the caucus lunches, at 

2:15 p.m. today. 

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RECESS 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under 

the previous order, the Senate stands 

in recess until 2:15 p.m. today. 

Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:35 p.m, 

recessed until 2:15 p.m., and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Mr. S

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ANDERS). 

MAKING CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 

CLOTURE MOTION

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under 

the previous order, 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. 511, H.J. Res. 

117, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013, and for 

other purposes. 

Harry Reid, Daniel K. Inouye, Patty 

Murray, Bernard Sanders, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon 

Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, Ron 

Wyden, Max Baucus, Mark Pryor, 

Christopher A. Coons, Jon Tester, Michael F. Bennet, Kay R. Hagan, Robert 

P. Casey, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, 

Barbara Boxer. 

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.J. Res. 117, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations 

for fiscal year 2013, 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. KYL. The following Senators are 

necessarily absent: the Senator from 

Oklahoma (Mr. INHOFE,) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. KIRK). 

Further, if present and voting, the 

Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. INHOFE) 

would have voted: ‘‘yea.’’ 

The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 76, 

nays 22, as follows: 

[Rollcall Vote No. 194 Leg.] 

YEAS—76 

Akaka 

Alexander 

Ayotte 

Baucus 

Begich 

Bennet 

Bingaman 

Blumenthal 

Blunt 

Boxer 

Brown (MA) 

Brown (OH) 

Burr 

Cantwell 

Cardin 

Carper 

Casey 

Chambliss 

Coats 

Cochran 

Conrad 

Coons 

Cornyn 

Durbin 

Feinstein 

Franken 

Gillibrand 

Hagan 

Harkin 

Hatch 

Heller 

Hoeven 

Hutchison 

Inouye 

Isakson 

Johanns 

Johnson (SD) 

Johnson (WI) 

Kerry 

Klobuchar 

Kohl 

Kyl 

Landrieu 

Lautenberg 

Leahy 

Levin 

Lieberman 

Lugar 

McCaskill 

McConnell 

Menendez 

Merkley 

Mikulski 

Murkowski 

Murray 

Nelson (NE) 

Nelson (FL) 

Portman 

Pryor 

Reed 

Reid 

Roberts 

Rockefeller 

Sanders 

Schumer 

Shaheen 

Stabenow 

Tester 

Thune 

Udall (CO) 

Udall (NM) 

Warner 

Webb 

Whitehouse 

Wicker 

Wyden 

NAYS—22 

Barrasso 

Boozman 

Coburn 

Collins 

Corker 

Crapo 

DeMint 

Enzi 

Graham 

Grassley 

Lee 

Manchin 

McCain 

Moran 

Paul 

Risch 

Rubio 

Sessions 

Shelby 

Snowe 

Toomey 

Vitter 

NOT VOTING—2 

Inhofe Kirk 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this 

vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 22. 

Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. 

The Senator from Montana. 

THE FARM BILL

Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, 3 

months ago the United States Senate 

came together and passed a full 5-year 

farm bill. We did not kick the can down 

the road. We passed a bill, working together, that provides the certainty 

America’s farmers and ranchers need 

to continue supporting rural jobs and 

putting food on our tables. So there is 

absolutely no excuse for Congress to 

adjourn without sending this bill to the 

President’s desk to be signed into law. 

Still, because the House refuses to even 

bring this bill up for a vote, it looks as 

though that is exactly what is going to 

happen. It is shameful. 

Passing the bill in the Senate was 

not easy; everyone had to make a compromise. But the farm bill touches on 

the lives of millions of Americans in 

every single State. It is too important 

not to act. 

The Senate’s farm bill is true reform. 

We cut the deficit by more than $23 billion over 10 years. We streamlined programs to make them more efficient. 

We went back to the drawing board on 

commodity programs and created a 

true safety net—one that works for 

America’s farmers as well as for the 

taxpayers—again, cutting the farm 

program by $23 billion. 

The House Agriculture Committee 

pushed out a bipartisan farm bill as 

well. I give the House Agriculture Committee a lot of credit. It is no secret 

that there are differences, but even to 

begin working out those differences the 

House needs to catch up, because despite having a bipartisan farm bill that 

passed the House Agriculture Committee, the House leadership is refusing to take it up. 

This isn’t my first farm bill. I can 

tell my colleagues from personal experience that this action in the House 

body is unprecedented. House leadership has never blocked a farm bill that 


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