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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. 773, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, of California, to be Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy.
Charles E. Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mark Kelly, Jack
Reed, Catherine Cortez Masto, Patty Murray, Margaret
Wood Hassan, Mazie K. Hirono, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin,
Robert P. Casey, Jr., Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Patrick J.
Leahy, Ron Wyden, Amy Klobuchar, Richard J. Durbin,
Jeff Merkley.
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 Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, of California, to be Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy, 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows:
YEAS--53
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--45
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--2
Lummis Sanders
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 78
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