[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 88 (Monday, May 11, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2338-S2339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  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 Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of 
     Housing and Urban Development.
         Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, James Lankford, John 
           Barrasso, James E. Risch, Steve Daines, David Perdue, 
           Shelley Moore Capito, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner, Marsha 
           Blackburn, John Cornyn, Kevin Cramer, Tim Scott, Thom 
           Tillis, Roger F. Wicker, Mike Crapo.

  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 Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, 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 Florida (Mr. Rubio), 
the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts 
(Mr. Markey), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and 
the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 29, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Ex.]

                                YEAS--60

     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--29

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Klobuchar
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

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                             NOT VOTING--11

     Alexander
     Cardin
     Leahy
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murray
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Toomey
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 
29.
  The motion is agreed to.

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