[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 27 (Thursday, February 10, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S632]
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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. 705, Max Vekich, of Washington, to 
     be a Federal Maritime Commissioner for a term expiring June 
     30, 2026.
         Charles E. Schumer, Christopher Murphy, Edward J. Markey, 
           Robert P. Casey, Jr., Maria Cantwell, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Debbie Stabenow, Benjamin L. Cardin, John 
           W. Hickenlooper, Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Christopher 
           A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Richard Blumenthal, Jacky 
           Rosen, Jack Reed, Thomas R. Carper, Cory A. Booker.

  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 Max Vekich, of Washington, to be a Federal Maritime 
Commissioner for a term expiring June 30, 2026, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 52 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--45

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Lujan
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 52, 
the nays are 45.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.