[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 26, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1467-S1468]
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 bill 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 Michael J. Desmond, of California, to be Chief Counsel for 
     the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel 
     in the Department of the Treasury.
         James E. Risch, Johnny Isakson, Todd Young, Mike Crapo, 
           Pat Roberts, John Thune, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, Thom 
           Tillis, John Boozman, Roger F. Wicker, James Lankford, 
           Tim Scott, Steve Daines, Michael B. Enzi, John Hoeven, 
           Mitch McConnell.


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  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 Michael J. Desmond, of California, to be Chief Counsel 
for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in 
the Department of the Treasury, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 15, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 30 Ex.]

                                YEAS--84

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--15

     Booker
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Warren
     Whitehouse

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Sinema
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 
15.
  The motion is agreed to.

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