[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 17, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4887]
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 Donald R. Tapia, of Arizona, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Jamaica.
         Mitch McConnell, Martha McSally, Pat Roberts, Mike Crapo, 
           James E. Risch, John Barrasso, Tom Cotton, Roger F. 
           Wicker, John Cornyn, Jerry Moran, Shelley Moore Capito, 
           Deb Fischer, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Richard Burr, Thom 
           Tillis, John Boozman, Chuck Grassley.

  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 Donald R. Tapia, of Arizona, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
Jamaica, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

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

                                NAYS--28

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Casey
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Bennet
     Harris
     Isakson
     Sanders
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 
28.
  The motion is agreed to.

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