[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 12, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of 
     Executive Calendar No. 108, Ronald Stroman, of the District 
     of Columbia, to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
     Service for a term expiring December 8, 2021.
         Charles E. Schumer, Margaret Wood Hassan, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Jon Tester, John Hickenlooper, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Brian Schatz, Gary C. Peters, Tina Smith, Cory 
           A. Booker, Christopher Murphy, Debbie Stabenow, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chris Van Hollen, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Alex Padilla.

  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 Ronald Stroman, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Governor of the United States Postal Service for a term expiring 
December 8, 2021, 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. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Heinrich) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

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

                                NAYS--30

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Heinrich
     Young
       
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays 
are 30.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Louisiana.

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