[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The VICE PRESIDENT. 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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 143, S. 4, a bill to amend the Voting 
     Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining 
     which States and political subdivisions are subject to 
     section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patrick J. Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Thomas R. Carper, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Margaret Wood Hassan, Raphael Warnock, Gary C. 
           Peters, Patty Murray, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Jacky 
           Rosen, Elizabeth Warren, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tina 
           Smith, Alex Padilla, Amy Klobuchar.

  The VICE PRESIDENT. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call 
has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
motion to proceed to S. 4, a bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 
1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political 
subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other 
purposes, 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.
  (Ms. ROSEN assumed the Chair.)
  (Ms. BALDWIN assumed the Chair.)
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 459 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--49

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

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Rounds
       
  Mr. SCHUMER. I vote no.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 49.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.
  The motion was rejected.


                          Motion to Reconsider

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the 
failed cloture vote.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The motion is entered.

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