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Cloture Motion
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. 179, David Crane, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary of Energy.
Charles E. Schumer, Joe Manchin III, Thomas R. Carper,
Mazie K. Hirono, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Margaret Wood
Hassan, Tammy Baldwin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Peter Welch,
Richard J. Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Tina Smith, Alex
Padilla, Debbie Stabenow, Tammy Duckworth, Chris Van
Hollen, Ben Ray Lujan.
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 David Crane, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary of Energy, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 40, as follows:
YEAS--54
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--40
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--6
Cotton Hoeven Moran Murray Risch Sullivan
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 54, the nays are 40.
The motion is agreed to.
The majority leader.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 98
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