[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 51 (Thursday, March 18, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1635]
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. 17, Martin Joseph Walsh, of 
     Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Labor.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, 
           Brian Schatz, Amy Klobuchar, Benjamin L. Cardin, Cory 
           A. Booker, Edward J. Markey, Angus S. King, Jr., Robert 
           P. Casey, Jr., Chris Van Hollen, Sherrod Brown, Kirsten 
           E. Gillibrand, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the nomination of 
Martin Joseph Walsh, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Labor, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 126 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--30

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Hirono
     Kennedy
       
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 
68, the nays are 30.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from West Virginia.