[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 189 (Wednesday, October 27, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7414]
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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 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. 413, Elizabeth Prelogar, of Idaho, 
     to be Solicitor General of the United States.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ben 
           Ray Lujan, Martin Heinrich, Cory A. Booker, Jack Reed, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Richard Blumenthal, Jacky Rosen, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Gary C. Peters, Chris Van Hollen, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Michael F. Bennet.
  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 Elizabeth Prelogar, of Idaho, to be Solicitor General of 
the United States, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), 
and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 441 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--42

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Capito
     Cruz
     Feinstein
     Rounds
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). The yeas are 53, the nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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