[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 6 (Monday, January 10, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S113]
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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 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. 612, Alan Davidson, of Maryland, to 
     be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
     Information.
         Charles E. Schumer, Maria Cantwell, Patrick J. Leahy, 
           Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Chris Van 
           Hollen, Jeanne Shaheen, Tina Smith, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Thomas R. Carper, Mazie K. Hirono, John W. 
           Hickenlooper, Edward J. Markey, Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, 
           Tammy Baldwin.

  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 Alan Davidson, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``Nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 30, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Ex.]

                                YEAS--64

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--30

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Cassidy
     Feinstein
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Ossoff
     Sanders
  (Mr. HEINRICH assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The yeas are 64, the nays are 30.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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