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          NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, this next vote is one to invoke 
cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 47. This is the Natural 
Resources Management Act. This is our long-talked-about bipartisan 
lands package.
  We have a measure in front of us that is composed of over 100 smaller 
lands, resources, and water bills. We have included priorities from up 
to 50 Senators here in this body; 90 of you have cosponsored.
  We reauthorized the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We addressed 
sportsmen's priorities. We have a wide range of land exchanges and 
conveyances and boundary modifications, water provisions. It creates 
new economic opportunities and improves the management of our Federal 
lands.
  We will be talking more about this in the next couple of days, but I 
encourage all Members to support us on this very, very important lands 
package.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.
  Mr. MANCHIN. Madam President, first of all, I want to echo what my 
colleague said. Senator Cantwell has worked hard the last 2 years or 3 
years on this process.
  The lands bill was recently--
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  Mr. MANCHIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 
minute.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. MANCHIN. I am just saying that this is a piece of legislation 
that has been worked on for quite some time. It is a piece of 
legislation that basically does an awful lot for an awful lot of people 
all over this country.
  Every one of us has something in this that is good. Land and water 
conservation is basically reauthorized permanently. It is something 
that we worked hard on.
  I appreciate all of the hard work, and thank you so much, Madam 
President.


                             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 assistant 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. 7, S. 47, a bill to provide for the 
     management of the natural resources of the United States, and 
     for other purposes.
         Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Shelley Moore Capito, Mitt 
           Romney, Richard Burr, John Cornyn, Rick Scott, Mike 
           Crapo, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Michael B. Enzi, Kevin Cramer, 
           Mike Braun, John Boozman, Steve Daines, James M. 
           Inhofe, Thom Tillis, Joni Ernst.

  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 S. 47, an act to provide for the management of the 
natural resources of the United States, 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 99, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 17 Leg.]

                                YEAS--99

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--1

       
     Paul
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). On this vote, the yeas are 99, 
the nays are 1.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The clerk will report the motion to proceed.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to the consideration of S. 47, a bill to 
     provide for the management of the natural resources of the 
     United States, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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