EXECUTIVE SESSION--Continued; Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 2
(Senate - January 06, 2020)

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                      EXECUTIVE SESSION--Continued

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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 Jovita Carranza, of Illinois, to be Administrator of the 
     Small Business Administration.
         Mitch McConnell, John Boozman, Joni Ernst, Kevin Cramer, 
           David Perdue, Steve Daines, Thom Tillis, Roger F. 
           Wicker, James E. Risch, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Lisa 
           Murkowski, Pat Roberts, Richard C. Shelby, Deb Fischer, 
           James Lankford, Chuck Grassley, Mike Rounds.

  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 Jovita Carranza, of Illinois, to be Administrator of the 
Small Business Administration, 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 Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and 
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''

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  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), 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 86, nays 5, as follows:

                         [Rollcall Vote 1 Ex.]

                                YEAS--86

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--5

     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Merkley
     Schatz
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Alexander
     Booker
     Klobuchar
     Lee
     Markey
     Perdue
     Sanders
     Shaheen
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 5.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Ohio.

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