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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 Kelly Craft, of Kentucky, to be the Representative of the
United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank
and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
and the Representative of the United States of America in the
Security Council of the United Nations.
Lamar Alexander, Thom Tillis, Martha McSally, John
Cornyn, Pat Roberts, Mike Rounds, Susan M. Collins, Tom
Cotton, Roy Blunt, Roger F. Wicker, Bill Cassidy, John
Thune, Richard Burr, John Barrasso, Rob Portman, Dan
Sullivan, Mitch McConnell.
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 Kelly Craft, of Kentucky, to be the Representative of the
United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and
status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the
Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council
of the United Nations, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Isakson).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Isakson) would have voted ``yea''.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet),
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the
Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts
(Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator
from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 33, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 252 Ex.]
YEAS--57
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NAYS--33
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Heinrich
Hirono
Jones
Kaine
King
Leahy
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--10
Bennet
Booker
Cassidy
Gillibrand
Harris
Isakson
Klobuchar
Markey
Sanders
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are
33.
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The motion is agreed to.
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