[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 3, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S2670]
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                             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 H. Anderson, of Virginia, 
to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.
         Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, Jerry Moran, Rob Portman, 
           Michael B. Enzi, Deb Fischer, Kevin Cramer, John Thune, 
           John Boozman, Shelley Moore Capito, Marco Rubio, Todd 
           Young, John Barrasso, James Lankford, Tim Scott, James 
           E. Risch, Cindy Hyde-Smith.

  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 H. Anderson, of Virginia, to be a Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense, 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 Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), and the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote or change their vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 18, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 108 Ex.]

                                YEAS--74

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--18

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Schumer
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Cramer
     Hoeven
     Markey
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Smith
     Tester
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 
18.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Illinois.