[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 14, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1730-S1731]
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

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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 Kevin K. McAleenan, of Hawaii, to be Commissioner of U.S. 
     Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland 
     Security.
         Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Roy Blunt, 
           John Barrasso, Richard Burr, Richard C. Shelby, Mike 
           Crapo, Shelley Moore Capito, Todd Young, Jeff Flake, 
           Cory Gardner, Ron Johnson, Michael B. Enzi, John 
           Kennedy, Susan M. Collins, James Lankford.

  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 Kevin K. McAleenan, of Hawaii, to be Commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection, 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 clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Heinrich) is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.]

                                YEAS--79

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--19

     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cardin
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Kaine
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Heinrich
     McCain
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 
19.
  The motion is agreed to.

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