[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 63 (Tuesday, April 13, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1890]
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 bill 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. 33, Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to 
     be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
         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 Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission for the remainder of the term 
expiring June 5, 2021, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--45

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Rounds
     Tillis

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 
45.
  The motion is agreed to.


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to 
be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the remainder 
of the term expiring June 5, 2021.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.

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