[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S488-S489]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 495, John Patrick Coffey, of New 
     York, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Navy.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Jacky Rosen, Margaret Wood Hassan, Mark Kelly, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Angus S. King, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich, 
           Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Chris Van Hollen.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.

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  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of John Patrick Coffey, of New York, to be General Counsel 
of the Department of the Navy, 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 New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 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), and the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 18, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 32 Ex.]

                                YEAS--76

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--18

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Schatz
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Daines
     Hoeven
     Lujan
     Sanders
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 76, the 
nays are 18.
  The motion is agreed to.

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