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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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 Kenneth A. Howery, of Texas, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to the Kingdom of Sweden.
Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, John Cornyn, John
Barrasso, Mike Crapo, John Thune, Tim Scott, John
Hoeven, Shelley Moore Capito, Kevin Cramer, John
Boozman, Steve Daines, Richard Burr, James E. Risch,
Roy Blunt, Thom Tillis, Martha McSally.
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 Kenneth A. Howery, of Texas, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to
the Kingdom of Sweden, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr.
Roberts).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr.
Alexander) 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 California
(Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the
Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 29, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 284 Ex.]
YEAS--63
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Carper
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Merkley
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--29
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Casey
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Heinrich
Hirono
Klobuchar
Leahy
Markey
Menendez
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Udall
Van Hollen
Whitehouse
NOT VOTING--8
Alexander
Bennet
Booker
Harris
Roberts
Sanders
Warren
Wyden
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are
29.
The motion is agreed to.
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