[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 29 (Monday, February 14, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S666]
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 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. 668, Robert McKinnon Califf, of 
     North Carolina, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 
     Department of Health and Human Services.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Gary C. Peters, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Richard J. Durbin, Sherrod 
           Brown, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, 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 Robert McKinnon Califf, of North Carolina, to be 
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human 
Services, 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 West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--45

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Capito
     Graham
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lujan
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 45.
  The motion is agreed to.

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