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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 the cloture motion 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 nomination of Executive Calendar No. 708, Ann Claire Phillips, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration.
Charles E. Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mark Kelly, Jack
Reed, Catherine Cortez Masto, Patty Murray, Margaret
Wood Hassan, Mazie K. Hirono, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin,
Robert P. Casey, Jr., Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Patrick J.
Leahy, Ron Wyden, Amy Klobuchar, Richard J. Durbin,
Jeff Merkley.
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 nomination of Ann Claire Phillips, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The Senior Assistant Executive Clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 20, as follows:
YEAS--72
Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS--20
Barrasso Boozman Braun Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville
NOT VOTING--8
Cardin Cassidy Kennedy Lummis Murray Padilla Shelby Toomey
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 20.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 77
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