[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 183 (Thursday, November 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S7136]
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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 Derek Kan, of California, to be Under Secretary of 
     Transportation for Policy.
         Mitch McConnell, Orrin G. Hatch, John Barrasso, Johnny 
           Isakson, Chuck Grassley, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, 
           Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, John Thune, John Boozman, Cory 
           Gardner, Pat Roberts, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, James M. 
           Inhofe, John Hoeven.

  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 Derek Kan, of California, to be Under Secretary of 
Transportation for Policy, 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. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Capito). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 87, nays 9, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 269 Ex.]

                                YEAS--87

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Strange
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--9

     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Merkley
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Udall
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Menendez
     Paul
     Roberts
     Tester
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 87, the nays are 9.
  The motion is agreed to.

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