[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 16, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S731-S732]
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.

[[Page S732]]

  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. 692, Celeste Ann Wallander, of 
     Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Joe Manchin III, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Debbie Stabenow, Tammy Baldwin, Christopher 
           Murphy, Margaret Wood Hassan, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Michael F. Bennet, Tina Smith, Brian Schatz, 
           Mark R. Warner, Richard J. Durbin.

  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 Celeste Ann Wallander, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), 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 South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 13, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 56 Ex.]

                                YEAS--81

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--13

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Moran
     Scott (SC)
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Feinstein
     Graham
     Kelly
     Lujan
     Sanders
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays 13.
  The motion is agreed to.

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