August 3, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 137 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Page S4663]
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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 Mark Wesley Menezes, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary 
     of Energy.
         Mitch McConnell, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Todd Young, Pat 
           Roberts, Lamar Alexander, John Hoeven, Roy Blunt, Mike 
           Crapo, Martha McSally, Tom Cotton, Roger F. Wicker, 
           Mike Rounds, Joni Ernst, Cory Gardner, Thom Tillis, 
           Shelley Moore Capito, James E. Risch.

  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 Mark Wesley Menezes, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary 
of Energy, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. 
Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Heinrich), 
the Sentor from Vermont (Leahy), and the Senator from Vermont (Sanders) 
are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 14, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--14

     Blumenthal
     Cortez Masto
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Burr
     Heinrich
     Hyde-Smith
     Leahy
     Moran
     Sanders
     Tillis
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 78, the nays are 14.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.

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