[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 6, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S2258]
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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 bill 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 William R. Evanina, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the 
     National Counterintelligence and Security Center. (New 
     Position)
         Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Chuck Grassley, Josh 
           Hawley, Joni Ernst, John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Shelley 
           Moore Capito, Deb Fischer, Rob Portman, John Thune, 
           Roger F. Wicker, John Boozman, Roy Blunt, Cindy Hyde-
           Smith, Mike Braun, Marsha Blackburn.

  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 William R. Evanina, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of 
the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (New Position), 
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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) 
would have voted ``yea''.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. 
Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cramer). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 7, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Ex.]

                                YEAS--83

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--7

     Blumenthal
     Duckworth
     Hirono
     Markey
     Merkley
     Van Hollen
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Brown
     Burr
     Leahy
     Moran
     Murray
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Stabenow
     Warren
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 7.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Colorado.