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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. 687, Elizabeth Schoff Watson, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Charles E. Schumer, John W. Hickenlooper, Jacky Rosen,
Jack Reed, Tim Kaine, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Tina
Smith, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla, Benjamin L. Cardin,
Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Catherine Cortez
Masto, Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Stabenow, Tammy
Duckworth, Mazie K. Hirono.
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 Schoff Watson, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, 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 Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows:
YEAS--50
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--47
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--3
Markey Rosen Van Hollen
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 47.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 85
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