[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 165 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6642-S6643]
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. 241, Daniel J. Kritenbrink, of 
     Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, 
     Class of Minister-Counselor, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
     State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs).
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Patrick J. Leahy, 
           Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Brian 
           Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, Catherine Cortez Masto, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Ron Wyden, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Edward J. Markey, Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Angus S. King, 
           Jr.

  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 Daniel J. Kritenbrink, of Virginia, a Career Member of 
the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs), 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 California (Ms. 
Feinstein) is necesssarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 18, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 378 Ex.]

                                YEAS--77

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

                                NAYS--18

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Hawley
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Thune
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Burr
     Feinstein
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Rounds
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 
18.
  The motion is agreed to.

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