[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 27, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2208]
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. 54, Janet Garvin McCabe, of
Indiana, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Charles E. Schumer, Thomas R. Carper, Ron Wyden, Jack
Reed, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patrick J. Leahy, Michael F.
Bennet, Tim Kaine, Christopher Murphy, Richard J.
Durbin, Cory A. Booker, Martin Heinrich, Chris Van
Hollen, Edward J. Markey, Sherrod Brown, Bernard
Sanders, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Richard Blumenthal.
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 Janet Garvin McCabe, of Indiana, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall be brought
to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer),
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota
(Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), and the Senator
from Alabama (Mr. Shelby).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott)
would have voted ``nay''.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 168 Ex.]
YEAS--52
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
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--42
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cassidy
Cornyn
Cotton
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Manchin
Marshall
McConnell
Moran
Portman
Risch
Romney
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (SC)
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING--6
Blunt
Cramer
Paul
Rounds
Scott (FL)
Shelby
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are
42.
The motion is agreed to.
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