[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3639]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The 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 Sean Cairncross, of Minnesota, to be Chief Executive 
     Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation.
         Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, John Barrasso, Pat Roberts, 
           Mike Crapo, John Cornyn, John Thune, Kevin Cramer, 
           Roger F. Wicker, John Boozman, John Hoeven, Thom 
           Tillis, Johnny Isakson, Tim Scott, Mike Braun, Richard 
           Burr, Lindsey Graham.

  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 Sean Cairncross, of Minnesota, to be Chief Executive 
Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. 
Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from 
Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 166 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

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

                                NAYS--37

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Kaine
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hirono
     Udall
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 
37.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent the Senate stand in recess 
following the remarks of myself, Senator Collins, and Senator King.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.