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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 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. 668, Robert McKinnon Califf, of North Carolina, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Richard Blumenthal,
Gary C. Peters, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sheldon
Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Richard J. Durbin, Sherrod
Brown, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, Mazie K. Hirono,
Alex Padilla, Tina Smith, Christopher A. Coons, Amy
Klobuchar, Jon Tester.
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 Robert McKinnon Califf, of North Carolina, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services, 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 Mexico (Mr. Lujan) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows:
YEAS--49
Baldwin Bennet Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--45
Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--6
Capito Graham Hoeven Kennedy Lujan Toomey
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 45.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 29
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