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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 Executive Calendar No. 652, Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young, of Georgia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics.
Charles E. Schumer, Cory A. Booker, Tammy Baldwin,
Patrick J. Leahy, Patty Murray, Tina Smith, Sheldon
Whitehouse, John W. Hickenlooper, Gary C. Peters,
Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, Jon Tester, Richard
J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mazie K. Hirono, Amy
Klobuchar, Maria Cantwell.
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 Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young, of Georgia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Toomey).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 3, as follows:
YEAS--89
Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS--3
Hawley Paul Sullivan
NOT VOTING--8
Blunt Cornyn Cruz Lee Merkley Murkowski Toomey Van Hollen
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 89, the nays are 3.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 91
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