And here’s the record of this from September 29:
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 551, S. 4653, a bill to protect the healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of the United States and prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to advocate courts to strike down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 551, S. 4653, a bill to
protect the healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of
the United States and prevent efforts of the Department of
Justice to advocate courts to strike down the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Mr. SCHUMER. 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 motion to
proceed to Calendar No. 551, S. 4653, a bill to protect the
healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of the United
States and prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to
advocate courts to strike down the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Patty Murray, Tim
Kaine, Martin Heinrich, Jack Reed, Jeff Merkley,
Bernard Sanders, Jon Tester, Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian
Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, Richard Blumenthal, Angus S.
King, Jr., Michael F. Bennet, Edward J. Markey, Chris
Van Hollen, Sheldon Whitehouse, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.
Mr. SCHUMER. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Without objection, it is so ordered.
And then on October 1, the cloture vote:
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 4653, a bill to protect the healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of the United States and prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to advocate courts to strike down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.’’
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 51, nays 43, as follows:
. . .
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
This next article is from 10 years ago, when Republicans were the minority and progressives were complaining about how the minority can gum up the procedural works:
