[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S32]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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. 327, Anne A. Witkowsky, of 
     Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Conflict and 
     Stabilization Operations).
         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 Anne A. Witkowsky, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State (Conflict and Stabilization Operations), 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 Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 24, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--24

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Cardin
     Feinstein
     Graham
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Menendez
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Portman
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sinema
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 62, the nays are 24.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Nevada.