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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. 45, Patrice H. Kunesh, of Minnesota, to be Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services.
Charles E. Schumer, Bernard Sanders, Alex Padilla,
Richard J. Durbin, Tim Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben
Ray Lujan, Raphael G. Warnock, Tammy Duckworth, Jack
Reed, John W. Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez Masto,
Tammy Baldwin, Brian Schatz, Christopher Murphy, Tina
Smith, Debbie Stabenow.
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 Patrice H. Kunesh, of Minnesota, to be Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows:
YEAS--62
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young
NAYS--34
Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville Vance Wicker
NOT VOTING--4
Barrasso Feinstein Fetterman Kelly
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 34.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 43
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