[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 165 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6634]
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 senior assistant 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. 244, Sarah Bianchi, of Virginia, to 
     be Deputy United States Trade Representative (Asia, Africa, 
     Investment, Services, Textiles, and Industrial 
     Competitiveness), with the rank of Ambassador.
         Charles E. Schumer, Mazie K. Hirono, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Jack Reed, Martin Heinrich, Michael F. Bennet, Jacky 
           Rosen, Richard Blumenthal, Alex Padilla, John 
           Hickenlooper, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Tina Smith, Tim 
           Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff Merkley.

  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 Sarah Bianchi, of Virginia, to be Deputy United States 
Trade Representative (Asia, Africa, Investment, Services, Textiles, and 
Industrial Competitiveness), with the rank of Ambassador, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 13, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 376 Ex.]

                                YEAS--85

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--13

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lankford
     McConnell
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Feinstein
     Rounds
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 
85, the nays are 13.
  The motion is agreed to.

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