[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 80 (Monday, May 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2408]
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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. 69, Andrea Joan Palm, of Wisconsin, 
     to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Michael F. Bennet, Jack 
           Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Patrick J. Leahy, Martin 
           Heinrich, Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Christopher Murphy, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, Chris Van Hollen, Tim 
           Kaine, Thomas R. Carper, Amy Klobuchar, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan.

  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 Andrea Joan Palm, of Wisconsin, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, 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 New Mexico (Mr. 
Heinrich) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Pennslyvania (Mr. Toomey).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 179 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--35

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Heinrich
     Murray
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). On this vote, the yeas are 62, 
the nays are 35.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.