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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. 674, Elizabeth de Leon Bhargava, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Charles E. Schumer, Jacky Rosen, Cory A. Booker,
Elizabeth Warren, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patty Murray,
Brian Schatz, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Margaret Wood
Hassan, Alex Padilla, Amy Klobuchar, Tina Smith, Jeff
Merkley, Jack Reed, Angus S. King, Jr., Tim Kaine,
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 Elizabeth de Leon Bhargava, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 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 Colorado (Mr. Bennet) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 35, as follows:
YEAS--61
Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young
NAYS--35
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker
NOT VOTING--4
Bennet Shaheen Shelby Tuberville
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 35.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 73
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