[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 69 (Monday, April 29, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S2477]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). 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 William Cooper, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the 
     Department of Energy.
         Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, Shelley Moore Capito, John 
           Barrasso, Mike Crapo, Richard C. Shelby, Mike Rounds, 
           John Cornyn, Roger F. Wicker, Pat Roberts, John Thune, 
           John Hoeven, Roy Blunt, Marco Rubio, Tim Scott, Kevin 
           Cramer.

  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 William Cooper, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of Energy 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue), and the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 78 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--32

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cardin
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Burr
     Kennedy
     Leahy
     Perdue
     Rubio
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 
32.
  The motion is agreed to.

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