Vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . If not on this vote, the yeas are 75, the nays are 23. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment the amendment is agreed to. Ms. Murkowski move to reconsider. A senator move to lay on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have order in the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Mcconnell yeah, id like to remind everybody these are supposed to be 10minute roll call votes and to the extent that you dont make it in the 10 minutes, you inconvenience everybody else, and i would hope people would be respectful of their colleagues and stay close to the floor and vote during the 10 minutes. Weve actually reached a milestone here that i thinks noteworthy for the senate. We just cast our 15th roll call vote on an amendment on this bill whic
Time. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Cantwell thank you mr. President. I thank the senator from north dakota. I know were going to be going back and forth on this issue and that we have speakers coming later this morning and were going to have time divided but i appreciate the senator of north dakota allowing us to join in the debate this morning and make a few mountains. And i do want to say i appreciate the senator from north dakotas hard work on the Energy Committee in general and i look forward to working with him on many Energy Policies. He and i have worked together on a couple of different agricultural issues, and i certainly appreciate his due diligence. But needless to say i dont agree with the process of moving forward with this motion to proceed to the Keystone Pipeline bill. Many of my colleagues here are going to be coming down, talking about the issues. Two of my colleagues including the senators from utah and arkansas along with the senator of north dakota,
Percentage of scientists who are in agreement with what this amendment says. And with that, mr. President , i would yield the floor. The presiding officer the senator from louisiana. Mr. Vitter mr. President , at this point i ask unanimous consent to call up amendment 80 which i have discussed previously today and which is at the desk. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The clerk will report. The clerk the senator from louisiana, mr. Vitter, proposes an amendment numbered 80. Mr. Vitter mr. President i ask that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Vitter and mr. President , i ask that the amendment be modified with the changes at the desk. The presiding officer the amendment is so modified. Mr. Vitter thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. The presiding officer the senator from new jersey. Mr. Menendez mr. President i rise to set aside and ask consent to set aside the pending amendment and call
And of the 181 waivers granted by this Committee Last congress, 175 of them were republicans. Thats 97 republicans. Three 3 democrats. Again in the last congress, democrats had to abide by the rules. The republicans did not. I have an amendment to try to eliminate big tax breaks for big oil companies. And every time ive tried to get a vote on it, on an energy bill ive been told, sorry the tax rule says you can only do this you can only do that on a tax bill. Then when i offer it on a tax bill, sorry. Its a farce. And i think the majority is hiding behind the rules to keep members from voting on anything you dont like. I have an Old Fashioned definition of rules. I was taught when you have rules youre supposed to follow them. And given the number of waivers that this committee has provided to get around the rules, i think we taught to be transparent about that. My hope is, the same with the previous amendment, if youre required to report these things then maybe you might think twice abo
Less than 200 votes. Also, a bill sponsored by the republican over the keystone to outline will be in the house this week. To the keystone xl pipeline and specifically what congress should do about it, we want to get your thoughts on if congress should approve passage and building of the Keystone Pipeline. If you support the measure if you oppose the measure want to make your thoughts on congress and how they should act on keystone, on , you can contact us on twitter, facebook or email. Mikeng us on the phone, lillis on the hill. Good morning. Can you give us a little background on the scheduled votes on keystone and how this happens . Guest sure, obama was trying to delay without having to deal with it and hoping to get out of office. No unanticipated this would foren in the lame duck something to the louisiana race was going to be close. But when republicans came back and said, hey, lets vote on this one more time and this is not the first time theyve voted on it. Theyve done this a