[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 144 (Tuesday, August 28, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5965]
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 Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be Vice Chairman of 
     the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a 
     term of four years.
         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 Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be Vice Chairman of 
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 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 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 Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 26, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.]

                                YEAS--69

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Baldwin
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     King
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Paul
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Cruz
     Graham
     Leahy
     Murkowski
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 69, the nays are 26.
  The motion is agreed to.

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