[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 216 (Saturday, December 19, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7842-S7843]
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 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 Beth Harwell, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of 
     Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term 
     expiring May 18, 2024.
         Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, Rick Scott, Tom Cotton, 
           Mike Crapo, Cory Gardner, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, 
           Roger F. Wicker, Marco Rubio, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Thom 
           Tillis, Shelley Moore Capito, John Boozman, Joni Ernst, 
           Mike Braun, Pat Roberts.

  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 Beth Harwell, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), 
the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), 
the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. 
Fischer), the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue), the Senator 
from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris)

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and the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Ex.]

                                YEAS--61

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Capito
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Peters
     Reed
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--25

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Blunt
     Burr
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Harris
     Hirono
     Loeffler
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Rounds
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 
25.
  The motion is agreed to.

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