[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 62 (Monday, April 12, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1870]
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                             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. 55, Polly Ellen Trottenberg, of New 
     York, to be Deputy Secretary of Transportation.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Patty Murray, Jeff Merkley, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Menendez, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Chris Van Hollen, 
           Ron Wyden, Angus S. King, Jr., Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Amy Klobuchar, Christopher Murphy.

  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 Polly Ellen Trottenberg, of New York, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Transportation, 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 Washington (Mrs. Murray) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 14, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 143 Ex.]

                                YEAS--81

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

                                NAYS--14

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Paul
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Rubio
     Tilli
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 81, 
the nays are 14.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Ohio.