[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 217 (Sunday, December 20, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7856-S7857]
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                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. GARDNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory call be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The legislative clerk read the following

                             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 Noland, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of 
     Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term 
     expiring May 18, 2024.

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         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 Brian Noland, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term expiring May 
18, 2024, 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 North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Enzi), 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 Idaho (Mr. Risch), 
and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) 
is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 5, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 281 Ex.]

                                YEAS--84

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--5

     Blumenthal
     Duckworth
     Markey
     Sanders
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Alexander
     Burr
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Harris
     Loeffler
     Paul
     Perdue
     Risch
     Rounds
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 5.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Texas.