[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 218 (Monday, December 21, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7910-S7911]
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 Eric J. Soskin, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
     Department of Transportation.
         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 Eric J. Soskin, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Transportation, 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 Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue), and the Senator from South Dakota 
(Mr. Rounds). -
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from West Virginia 
(Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 287 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--44

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth

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     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Jones
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Enzi
     Harris
     Kaine
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     Perdue
     Rounds
     Sander
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 
44.
  Upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from North Carolina.