[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 200 (Wednesday, November 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8321]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). 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. 463, Brian Eddie Nelson, of 
     California, to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial 
     Crimes.
         Charles E. Schumer, Chris Van Hollen, John Hickenlooper, 
           Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Jeff Merkley, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Patrick J. Leahy, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Ben Ray Lujan, Christopher Murphy, 
           Martin Heinrich, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Michael F. 
           Bennet, Ron Wyden, Raphael Warnock.

  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 Brian Eddie Nelson, of California, to be Under Secretary 
for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, 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.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 471 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
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     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
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young
  (Whereupon, Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  (Whereupon, Mr. LUJAN assumed the Chair.)
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. 
The Senate being evenly divided, the Vice President votes in the 
affirmative.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). The majority leader.

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