[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 123 (Monday, July 22, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4960]
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                             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 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 Mark T. Esper, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Defense.
         James M. Inhofe, John Hoeven, Mike Rounds, Joni Ernst, 
           Kevin Cramer, Ben Sasse, Pat Roberts, John Boozman, 
           Mike Crapo, Steve Daines, John Cornyn, James E. Risch, 
           Roger F. Wicker, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis, Roy Blunt, 
           Mitch McConnell.

  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 Mark T. Esper, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Defense, 
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 Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) I 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 6, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.]

                                YEAS--85

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

                                NAYS--6

     Harris
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Merkley
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bennet
     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Isakson
     Kennedy
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Sanders
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 6.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.