[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 155 (Wednesday, September 25, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5695]
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 Gen. John E. Hyten for appointment as Vice Chairman of the 
     Joint Chiefs of Staff and for appointment in the United 
     States Air Force to the grade indicated while assigned to a 
     position of importance and responsibility in accordance with 
     title 10, U.S.C., sections 154 and 601: to be General.
         Mitch McConnell, Roger F. Wicker, John Cornyn, Richard C. 
           Shelby, John Barrasso, Johnny Isakson, Richard Burr, 
           Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds, Mike Crapo, James E. Risch, 
           Roy Blunt, John Boozman, John Thune, David Perdue, John 
           Hoeven, Steve Daines.

  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 General John E. Hyten for appointment as Vice Chairman of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and for appointment in the United States Air 
Force to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of importance 
and responsibility in accordance with title 10, U.S.C., sections 154 
and 601: to be General, 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 Senator is necessarily absent: 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 Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California 
(Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), 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 73, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 308 Ex.]

                                YEAS--73

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

                                NAYS--21

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey
     Duckworth
     Ernst
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bennet
     Booker
     Harris
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 73, the nays are 21.
  The motion is agreed to.

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