[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S974-S975]
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 Executive Calendar No. 13, Cecilia Elena Rouse, of New 
     Jersey, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
         Charles E. Schumer, Sherrod Brown, 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.

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  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the 
Council of Economic Advisers, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 94, nays 5, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 71 Ex.]

                                YEAS--94

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

                                NAYS--5

     Cotton
     Lummis
     Paul
     Scott (FL)
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Blackburn
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 94, the nays are 5.
  The motion is agreed to.

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