[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S486-S487]
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 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. 644, Amy Gutmann, of Pennsylvania, 
     to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
     United States of America to the Federal Republic of Germany.
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Gary C. Peters, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Richard J. Durbin, Sherrod 
           Brown, Patty Murray, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Mazie K. Hirono, Alex Padilla, Tina 
           Smith, Christopher A. Coons, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Tester.

  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 Amy Gutmann, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Federal Republic of Germany, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons),

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the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), 
the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from North Dakota 
(Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator 
from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 37, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 28 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--37

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Daines
     Hoeven
     Lujan
     Rubio
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays 
are 37.
  The motion is agreed to.

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