[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 73 (Wednesday, April 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2266]
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 the debate on the 
     nomination of Executive Calendar No. 61, Samantha Power, of 
     Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the United States 
     Agency for International Development.
         Charles E. Schumer, Mazie K. Hirono, Ron Wyden, Jack 
           Reed, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patrick J. Leahy, Michael F. 
           Bennet, Tim Kaine, Christopher Murphy, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Christopher A. Coons, Cory A. Booker, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich, Chris Van Hollen, Sherrod 
           Brown, Edward J. Markey, Bernard Sanders.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it sense of the Senate that Samantha Power, of 
Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), 
the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Shelby).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Are there any other 
Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 173 Leg.]

                                YEAS--67

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--28

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Cantwell
     Cramer
     Paul
     Rounds
     Shelby
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 
28.
  The motion is agreed to.

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