[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 197 (Monday, December 4, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7818-S7819]
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 Kirstjen Nielsen, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Homeland 
     Security.
         Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Roy Blunt, Rob Portman, 
           James E. Risch, Lindsey Graham, Richard Burr, Mike 
           Crapo, John Boozman, Roger F. Wicker, Ron Johnson, John 
           Thune, John Hoeven, Steve Daines, Marco Rubio, John 
           Cornyn, John Barrasso.

  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 Kirstjen Nielsen, of Virginia, to be Secretary 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 clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), and the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Lee).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 304 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake

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     Gardner
     Grassley
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shelby
     Strange
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--33

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Corker
     Graham
     Hatch
     Klobuchar
     Lee
     Merkley
     Sanders
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 
33.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Alaska.