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CLOTURE MOTION
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). 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 Executive Calendar No. 1097, Arati Prabhakar, of California, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Charles E. Schumer, Cory A. Booker, Tim Kaine, Robert P.
Casey, Jr., Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed, Chris Van
Hollen, Alex Padilla, Debbie Stabenow, Ben Ray Lujan,
Christopher Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A.
Coons, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tammy Baldwin, Edward J.
Markey, Raphael G. Warnock.
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 Arati Prabhakar, of California, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 38, as follows:
YEAS--58
Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Lummis Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--38
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin Marshall McConnell Paul Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--4
Baldwin Cramer Crapo Risch
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 58, the nays are 38.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 152
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