[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S157]
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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 Peter Gaynor, of Rhode Island, to be Administrator of the 
     Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland 
     Security.
         Mitch McConnell, John Thune, Ron Johnson, Mike Rounds, 
           Richard Burr, Kevin Cramer, Pat Roberts, Roger F. 
           Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Tim 
           Scott, Mike Crapo, Steve Daines, John Boozman, Shelley 
           Moore Capito, James E. Risch.

  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 Peter Gaynor, of Rhode Island, to be Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, 
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 Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), 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 76, nays 8, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Ex.]

                                YEAS--76

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--8

     Brown
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Menendez
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Bennet
     Booker
     Cassidy
     Cramer
     Durbin
     Graham
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Risch
     Sanders
     Scott (SC)
     Toomey
     Warner
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 8.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter into a 
colloquy with my colleagues from Rhode Island and New Jersey.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.