[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 46 (Thursday, March 11, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1488]
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 the nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 31, Debra Anne Haaland, of New 
     Mexico, to be Secretary of the Interior.
         Charles E. Schumer, Chris Van Hollen, Michael F. Bennet, 
           Jack Reed, Tammy Duckworth, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff 
           Merkley, Christopher A. Coons, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Amy Klobuchar, Tina Smith, Brian 
           Schatz, Robert Menendez, Richard J. Durbin, Martin 
           Heinrich, 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 Debra Anne Haaland, of New Mexico, to be Secretary of the 
Interior, 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 North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 118 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--42

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Burr
     Cassidy
     Kennedy
     Moran
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 
54, the nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.