[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 23, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S797]
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 Calendar No. 11, 
     Linda Thomas-Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be Representative 
     of the United States of America to the Sessions of the 
     General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of 
     service as Representative of the United States of America to 
     the United Nations.
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Tina Smith, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Thomas R. Carper, Sheldon Whitehouse, Patrick 
           J. Leahy, Brian Schatz, Christopher A. Coons, Jack 
           Reed, Michael F. Bennet, Debbie Stabenow, Chris Van 
           Hollen, Ron Wyden, Martin Heinrich, Bernard Sanders, 
           Edward J. Markey, Cory A. Booker.

  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 Linda Thomas-Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the 
General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, 
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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. 
Shaheen) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 20, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 62 Ex.]

                                YEAS--77

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--20

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Lankford
     Marshall
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Paul
     Shaheen
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 
20.
  The motion is agreed to.

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