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[Pages S69-S70]
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 Michael George DeSombre, of Illinois, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to the Kingdom of Thailand.
Mitch McConnell, John Boozman, James M. Inhofe, John
Barrasso, Roy Blunt, Todd Young, Shelley Moore Capito,
Michael B. Enzi, Lisa Murkowski, John Cornyn, Steve
Daines, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, Josh Hawley,
Roger F. Wicker, Marsha Blackburn.
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 Michael George DeSombre, of Illinois, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to
the Kingdom of Thailand, 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 Georgia (Mr.
Perdue).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr.
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker),
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
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The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in
the Chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 31, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 5 Ex.]
YEAS--64
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cardin
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Loeffler
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Menendez
Moran
Murkowski
Paul
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Udall
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--31
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Harris
Heinrich
Hirono
Jones
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Schatz
Schumer
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Van Hollen
Warner
Wyden
NOT VOTING--5
Alexander
Booker
Perdue
Sanders
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are
31.
The motion is agreed to.
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