[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 106 (Thursday, June 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4607-S4608]
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 nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 157, John K. Tien, of Georgia, to 
     be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Ben Ray Lujan, Michael F. 
           Bennet, Jeanne Shaheen, Alex Padilla, Chris Van Hollen, 
           Debbie Stabenow, Christopher A. Coons, Mark R. Warner, 
           Robert P. Casey, Jr., Margaret Wood Hassan, Brian 
           Schatz, Tammy Baldwin, Mark Kelly, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Jeff Merkley.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.

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  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of John K. Tien, of Georgia, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Homeland Security, 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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Risch
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Booker
     Cramer
     Moran
     Peter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 
33.
  The motion is agreed to.

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