[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 175 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6901]
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                             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 bill 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. 336, Paloma Adams-Allen, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be a Deputy Administrator of the 
     United States Agency for International Development.
         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 Paloma Adams-Allen, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) is necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 404 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     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--21

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Feinstein
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 78 and 
the nays are 21.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I and 
Senator Hagerty be able to complete our remarks prior to the scheduled 
recess.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.