[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 121 (Monday, July 12, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4818-S4819]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 67, Uzra Zeya, of Virginia, to be 
     an Under Secretary of State (Civilian Security, Democracy, 
     and Human Rights).
         Charles E. Schumer, Jon Ossoff, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ron Wyden, 
           Robert Menendez, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jacky Rosen, Cory 
           A. Booker, Tammy Duckworth, John Hickenlooper, Jon 
           Tester, Edward J. Markey, Tammy Baldwin, Brian Schatz, 
           Gary C. Peters, Tina Smith
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Uzra Zeya, of Virginia, to be an Under Secretary of 
State, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 23, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 253 Ex.]

                                YEAS--71

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray

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     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--23

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Booker
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Inhofe
     Murkowski
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 71, 
the nays are 23.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Ohio.