[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 94 (Friday, May 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3927]
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 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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 60, H.R. 3233, an act to establish 
     the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack 
     on the United States Capitol Complex, and for other purposes.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jacky Rosen, Patrick J. Leahy, Brian 
           Schatz, Richard J. Durbin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert 
           P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A. Coons, Gary C. Peters, 
           Angus S. King, Jr., Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher 
           Murphy, Chris Van Hollen, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Tina Smith, Ben Ray Lujan.
  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 
motion to proceed to H.R. 3233, an act to establish the National 
Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States 
Capitol Complex, and for other purposes, 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 Washington (Mrs. Murray) 
and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), 
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 35, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Leg.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--35

     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Braun
     Burr
     Inhofe
     Murray
     Risch
     Rounds
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Toome
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 
54, the nays are 35.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The motion was rejected.

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