[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 48 (Thursday, March 12, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S1717]
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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 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 James P. Danly, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the 
     Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of the 
     term expiring June 30, 2023.
         Mitch McConnell, Mike Crapo, Tim Scott, Chuck Grassley, 
           David Perdue, Lamar Alexander, John Barrasso, Tom 
           Cotton, Thom Tillis, James M. Inhofe, Shelley Moore 
           Capito, Ron Johnson, Mike Rounds, Richard Burr, James 
           Lankford, Jerry Moran, John Thune.

  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 James P. Danly, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of the term 
expiring June 30, 2023, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  (Mr. COTTON assumed the Chair.)
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) 
are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 40, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 71 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--40

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Cantwell
     Cruz
     Klobuchar
     Perdue
     Sanders
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 
40.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Iowa.