[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 38 (Monday, March 1, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S921]
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 Executive 
     Calendar No. 8, Gina Marie Raimondo, of Rhode Island, to be 
     Secretary of Commerce.
         Charles E. Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert Menendez, Patrick J. Leahy, 
           Alex Padilla, Jacky Rosen, Richard J. Durbin, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Jack Reed, Chris Van Hollen, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Tim Kaine, Martin Heinrich, Christopher 
           Murphy, Maria Cantwell.

  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 Gina Marie Raimondo, of Rhode Island, to be Secretary of 
Commerce, 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 Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any Senators in the Chamber wishing 
to vote or change their vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 15, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 69 Ex.]

                                YEAS--84

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

                                NAYS--15

     Barrasso
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lummis
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Blackburn
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 84, the nays are 15.
  The motion is agreed to.

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