[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 27, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2210]
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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 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. 68, Colin Hackett Kahl, of 
     California, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Ron Wyden, Jack Reed, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Michael F. Bennet, Tim Kaine, Christopher 
           Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Edward J. Markey, Cory A. 
           Booker, Sherrod Brown, Bernard Sanders, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich.

  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 Colin Hackett Kahl, of California, to be Under Secretary 
of Defense for Policy, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. 
Whitehouse) is necessarily absent.
  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 Alabama (Mr. Shelby) 
would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would 
have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote or change their vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 170 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--44

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

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Blunt
     Cramer
     Paul
     Rounds
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
44.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider on the McCabe nomination is considered made and laid upon 
the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the 
Senate's action.

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