[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 165 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6664-S6665]
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. 240, Todd D. Robinson, of New 
     Jersey, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class 
     of Career Minister, to be an Assistant Secretary of State 
     (International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 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.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Todd D. Robinson, of New Jersey, a Career Member of the 
Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State (International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
Affairs), 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), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator 
from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator 
from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 29, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 383 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--29

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cramer

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     Crapo
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Sasse
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Blackburn
     Burr
     Cassidy
     Daines
     Feinstein
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     Moran
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)
     Tillis
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). The yeas are 54, the nays are 29.
  The motion is agreed to.

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