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EXECUTIVE CALENDAR--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 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 Troy D. Edgar, of California, to be Chief Financial
Officer, Department of Homeland Security.
Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, James Lankford, John
Barrasso, James E. Risch, Steve Daines, David Perdue,
Tom Cotton, Kevin Cramer, Cory Gardner, Shelley Moore
Capito, Marsha Blackburn, John Cornyn, Tim Scott, Thom
Tillis, Roger F. Wicker, Mike Crapo.
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 Troy D. Edgar, of California, to be Chief Financial
Officer, Department of Homeland Security, 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 called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr.
Sasse).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr.
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Washington
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator
from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote or change their vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 31, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 87 Ex.]
YEAS--62
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Carper
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Lee
Loeffler
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--31
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Harris
Heinrich
Hirono
Klobuchar
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Smith
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Warren
Wyden
NOT VOTING--7
Alexander
Leahy
Markey
Murray
Sanders
Sasse
Whitehouse
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 62, the nays are 31.
The motion is agreed to.
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