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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 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 nomination of Executive Calendar No. 476, David A. Honey, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.
Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Richard Blumenthal,
Catherine Cortez Masto, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon
Whitehouse, 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 David A. Honey, of Virginia, to be 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 93, nays 3, as follows:
YEAS--93
Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS--3
Blackburn Hawley Tuberville
NOT VOTING--4
Feinstein Graham Kelly Lujan
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 93, the nays are 3.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 31
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