[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S1048]
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 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. 547, Maria L. Pagan, of Puerto 
     Rico, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative 
     (Geneva Office), with the rank of Ambassador.
         Charles E. Schumer, Alex Padilla, Christopher Murphy, 
           Edward J. Markey, Gary C. Peters, Brian Schatz, Jack 
           Reed, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Tim Kaine, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher 
           A. Coons, Margaret Wood Hassan, Patrick J. Leahy, 
           Debbie Stabenow.

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Maria L. Pagan, of Puerto Rico, to be a Deputy United 
States Trade Representative (Geneva Office), with the rank of 
Ambassador shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Inhofe).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 19, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

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

                                NAYS--19

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Hagerty
     Inhofe
     Sanders
  (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 78 and 
the nays are 19.
  The motion is agreed to.

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