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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 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 nomination of Executive Calendar No. 496, Alexandra Baker, of New Jersey, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.
Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Richard Blumenthal,
Catherine Cortez Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard J.
Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Margaret Wood Hassan, Mark Kelly,
Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow,
Angus S. King, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich,
Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Chris Van Hollen.
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 Alexandra Baker, of New Jersey, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, 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.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 70, nays 24, as follows:
YEAS--70
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Rounds Sasse Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS--24
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Johnson Lankford Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Romney Rubio Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Toomey Tuberville
NOT VOTING--6
Cramer Daines Gillibrand Hoeven Lujan Sanders
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 70, the nays are 24.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 22
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