[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 148 (Monday, September 16, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5490]
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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 John Rakolta, Jr., of Michigan, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the United Arab Emirates.
         Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, John Cornyn, John 
           Barrasso, Mike Crapo, John Thune, Tim Scott, John 
           Hoeven, Shelley Moore Capito, Kevin Cramer, John 
           Boozman, Steve Daines, Richard Burr, James E. Risch, 
           Roy Blunt, Thom Tillis, Martha McSally.

  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 John Rakolta, Jr., of Michigan, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the United Arab Emirates, 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 Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), The 
Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) 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), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobacher), the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) 
are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 27, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Ex.]

                                YEAS--55

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Young

                                NAYS--27

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schumer
     Smith
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Alexander
     Bennet
     Booker
     Cruz
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Murray
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Toomey
     Warren
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 
27.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader is recognized.