[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 199 (Tuesday, November 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8222-S8223]
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

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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. 345, Robert Farrell Bonnie, of 
     Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm 
     Production and Conservation.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jacky Rosen, Thomas R. Carper, Alex 
           Padilla, Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, Elizabeth 
           Warren, Jeff Merkley, Debbie Stabenow, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Catherine Cortez Masto, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Gary C. 
           Peters, Martin Heinrich, Brian Schatz.

  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 Robert Farrell Bonnie, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary 
of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation, 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 New Hampshire (Ms. 
Hassan), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from 
New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. 
Warren) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 468 Ex.]

                                YEAS--75

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--20

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Hassan
     Inhofe
     Markey
     Shaheen
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 75, the nays are 
20.
  The motion is agreed to.

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