[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 143 (Monday, August 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5948-S5949]
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 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 Lynn A. Johnson, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary 
     for Family Support, Department of Health and Human Services.
         Mitch McConnell, Richard C. Shelby, Cory Gardner, John 
           Boozman, Johnny Isakson, John Thune, John Cornyn, Pat 
           Roberts, Ron Johnson, James M. Inhofe, Chuck Grassley, 
           Lamar Alexander, Richard Burr, Lisa Murkowski, Michael 
           B. Enzi, Roy Blunt, Bob Corker.

  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 Lynn A. Johnson, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Family Support, Department of Health and Human Services, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), 
the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Jones), the Senator from Vermont (Mr.

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Leahy), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator 
from Washington (Mrs. Murray) 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 60, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Ex.]

                                YEAS--60

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Casey
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--28

     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cardin
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Carper
     Cassidy
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Graham
     Hirono
     Jones
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Murkowski
     Murray
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 
28.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Ohio.

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