[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 122 (Thursday, July 2, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             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 Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget.
         Mitch McConnell, Marsha Blackburn, Joni Ernst, John 
           Boozman, Steve Daines, Cory Gardner, Pat Roberts, Mike 
           Rounds, Mike Crapo, Roger F. Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith, 
           Lamar Alexander, Shelley Moore Capito, Rob Portman, Roy 
           Blunt, John Barrasso, 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 Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget, 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 North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), 
the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from 
Arizona (Ms. McSally), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator 
from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Ex.]

                                YEAS--47

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--44

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Burr
     Enzi
     Hyde-Smith
     Markey
     McSally
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Tillis
     Udall
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 
44.
  The motion is agreed to.

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